Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, the syndicate faced the more realistic prospect of dividing up something less than $7,000, before taxes. Biggest chunk of cash came from the sale of a Chrysler sedan for $2,300. An auction of a large part of the loot (a living room suite, three rugs, a TV set, "$1,000 worth" of books, bedroom furniture, a diamond ring, wrist watch and assorted luggage), all of which was valued at nearly $9,000, brought in about $3,000. The syndicate would also be well-clad for a while: a Chicago tailoring firm had agreed to make...
Still, the creeping recession had not yet crept all over. Detroit was riding high, with the auto industry driving for its biggest postwar year. Last week Chrysler Corp. came up with record first-half earnings of $6.12 a share...
...only field for the Yankee dollar. Last year, Chrysler, General Motors and Ford* turned out automotive products worth $183 million, 95% of Canadian production. Firestone, U.S. Rubber, Goodyear and Goodrich did 60% of the rubber business, and other well-known U.S. manufacturing names were familiar throughout the provinces. In the latest DBS report Coca-Cola has 22 bottling works, Borden Co. 23 dairy processing plants, Swift 26 packinghouses...
People outside the office saw little of him. Every morning, a bespectacled chauffeur-bodyguard knocked on the sixth-floor door of his apartment at 420 West 119th Street (near Columbia University), escorted him down to a Chrysler sedan and drove him to the office. In the evening the chauffeur took him home again in the same solicitous fashion...
...erect, well-knit six-footer, Trippe, at 49, still packs the same weight (1961bs.) that he carried in college. He runs his global empire from a barren, middling-sized headquarters on the 58th floor of Manhattan's Chrysler Building. There, he swivels between a clean work table, where he does his conferring, and a rolltop desk (always locked when he is away), where he does his thinking, figuring and secret dreaming. Close at hand are two small globes. (The big three-foot one on which he used to plan his routes and spot his far-flung bases, measuring...