Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some soft spots remained. Detroit, with a Chrysler strike piled on top of layoffs, about held its own with 1957 sales. The spots were more than offset. Atlanta registered sales 4% above 1957 (which merchants said was "incredible." because 1957 was 8% better than 1956). The biggest surprise of all was in New York. With the nine major newspapers shut down by a strike (see PRESS), department stores lost some mail- and phone-order business, and total sales were below anticipation, but they set new records. Said one top store executive: "It was wonderful...
...over the first ten days of December, and last week were 34% over the same period in '57. The sales increase was the more encouraging because it came in the midst of freezing weather and snow over much of the U.S.. and at a time when Chrysler production was cut by a strike. Small cars continued to gain speed; American Motors and Studebaker-Packard picked up 6.6% of December sales v. 2.8% last year...
...young artists are to follow the advice of Father Edward M. Catich in giving "Christ a shave and a haircut," and "defeminize Christ, return his trousers, restore his masculinity" [Nov. 24], it follows that we should also put Christ in a Chrysler ("God is my Auto-Pilot"). Also, since Christ was a carpenter, we could put him in good standing with the A.F. of L. and C.I.O...
...strike over a five-minute relief period all but shut down car production at Chrysler last week. Beginning with a walkout of 400 workers at the main Dodge plant, the stoppage soon idled 41,440 workers as parts shortages halted production in the major Chrysler plants. The relief period of five minutes an hour (in addition to regular relief periods) was first arranged because of special fatigue problems, such as extraordinary heat, though the company claimed that technological improvements later eliminated the problems. So that no actual output would be lost, the United Auto Workers agreed to speed...
...Procter & Gamble was operating a recently completed $2,000,000 plant. A few miles down the road, Union Carbide was moving into a polyethylene plant, and Ford and General Motors were operating assembly lines. In The Netherlands, B. F. Goodrich was constructing a synthetic-rubber factory at Arnhem, and Chrysler was rolling out Simcas from its recently acquired assembly line at Rotterdam. Like many other U.S. companies, they have found Belgium and The Netherlands the best places for establishing continental plants. U.S. companies in The Netherlands have even done well making traditional Dutch products for sale to the Dutch. Borden...