Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire. He wanted RFC to lend up to $90,000,000 to eleven companies, some of which had never built houses, to build prefabricated houses and housing parts. Biggest loan would go to Chicago's Lustron Corp., along with a lease on Chicago's RFC-owned Dodge-Chrysler plant (TIME, Nov. 11). RFC's roly-poly George Allen said flatly: no. Most of the companies were putting up negligible security, might make as much as 14,000% profit if the loans went through...
...steel output), on which controls had already been removed with no price effect, would probably stay put or even decline. ¶ General Motors was the first to raise prices. It boosted car and truck prices an even $100 all around. Ford said he would hold the line. Chrysler Corp., which has started to make money, said nothing. ¶ Housing costs would soar over ceiling prices all down the line. But black markets and many bottlenecks would be ended and prices of some items-i.e., nails-would drop under black market prices. ¶ Electrical appliances, such as small motors, would...
...Capitolio's steps (see cut). By last week President Grau was reported ready to climb down. What Money Buys. Owning his own land (some 67 acres), a superior four-room wooden house and possessing three oxen, a couple of cows and a horse (the local equivalent of a Chrysler), Nicolás was much better off than most of his fellow colonos. Yet after giving 53% of his sugar crop to the central (mill) in return for grinding it, and paying for wages, fertilizer, etc., he would have about $64 left of the $4,200 his 1946 crop...
Dean of the old-auto set is Edgar O. Appleby '47, who has disposed of six or seven collector's items about the square and is currently featuring a 1925 Pierce Arrow whose durability is amazing. While owners of GM, Chrysler postwar creations can have little idea of their cars' staying powers, the Pierce's lucky purchaser knows in advance that it was built for endurance...
Detroit's automakers were the hardest hit. Last week, Chevrolet production dropped from 12,347 to 7,792. Briggs Manufacturing Co., which makes bodies for Chrysler and Packard, laid off 7,000 workers, cut schedules in half. Result: Chrysler cut its daily production from 3,600 to 2,775 cars, is expected to lay off 18,000 workers. Ford production too began to slip...