Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought forth none of the resolutions that often raise the hackles of more liberal businessmen. It contented itself with a mild request that the U.S. budget be held to a $37 billion ceiling, and a plea for a "readjusting" of income taxes. It listened politely to the demand, by Chrysler's B. E. Hutchinson, for a return to the gold standard, but gently pigeonholed...
...short life, the monthly had burned up $800,000 invested by Backers Harold Talbott, Jack Chrysler, Angier Biddle Duke, Joe Uihlein Jr. (Schlitzbeer) and others. To keep going, Kaleidoscope needed another $1,400,000, and nobody wanted to risk that much. Explained Publisher William Husted: "There's a falling market in the fashion industry right now ... and we just didn't get enough advertising." (From 172 pages of ads in October, sales had dropped to 56 in November, only 22½ in December...
Humming. The automobile industry was heartier than ever. Chrysler Corp. reported a record nine-month net of $59,887,601 (up 25%). Packard's net for the same period was $9,488,336 (v. a $131,478 loss in the 1947 period). Kaiser-Frazer turned in $8,253,451 after deducting $5,900,000 in taxes (v. $6,089,000 in the 1947 period, when no taxes were paid. K-F's earnings were tax-free because of a carry-back). But K-F's third-quarter net of $2,058,000 was almost 74% below...
...minutes later, in Jerusalem's Katamon quarter (formerly an Arab residential district, now held by Israeli forces), the Count's cream-colored Chrysler was stopped at a roadblock. From a jeep stepped two men in Israeli army uniforms, carrying Sten guns. While U.S. Colonel Frank Begley (a U.N. observer who drove the Count's car) grappled with one of the men, the other looked into the car, recognized the Count, shoved his gun through the window and started shooting. The bullets went straight through the ribbons on Bernadotte's uniform. Said General Lundstrom, who sat beside...
...turned it down cold "because they were attempting the impossible." Then she decided to try the impossible. She spent her first three weeks getting together a staff, mostly from retail stores. From June 21, when the first color pictures were taken, until last week, Kaleidoscope's Chrysler Building offices were a mad henhouse. Typical of the fast & furious work was a 24-page portfolio of Paris clothes. It was put together only four days after Fashion Editor Kay Sullivan got home from Paris, and just ten days before Kaleidoscope appeared...