Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chrysler's strategy "to combat sales slump" is splashier trim and more chrome. How unrealistic can they get? What they ought to do is rip the nasty stuff off their monsters and cut prices...
...next show was lousy?" Shower succeeded in reducing its stars (Janis Paige, John Raitt, Betty Grable) to micrometeor magnitude, often seemed an accidental parody of an early '30s movie musical, lacking only the traditional aerial views of chorus girls sprawling in living floral patterns. Jokes and Chrysler commercials sometimes had interchangeable parts. Cooed Barbara Nichols, playing a scrub girl in a carwash emporium: "Gee, isn't he [Raitt] cute! He can put his Imperial on my wash rack any time!" Jack Benny had the embarrassed air of one trapped in a cold Shower that could not be shut...
...federal grand jury began checking into the books of the capital's Ford, Chevrolet and Chrysler dealers' associations; the Justice Department is investigating others throughout the nation. While packing is not illegal when performed by individual dealers, the jury will investigate complaints of dealer associations' price fixing, which is against the law. The Government suspects that dealers who sell one line are forming area associations to make secret fixes of prices of new cars and trade-ins. By agreeing on the size of the pack, they eliminate competition among themselves...
...United Auto Workers aggressively presented their new wage demands to Ford and Chrysler last week, Detroit's worried automakers got some sound advice from Harvard University. Said Economist Sumner Slichter: "The auto companies would be wise to maintain a united front that would sooner or later lead to industry-wide bargaining...
...result, so much suspicion and ill will have been built up within the industry that it refuses to get together. Ford, Chrysler and American Motors are all for industry-wide negotiations. They know that the U.A.W. would hesitate to strike the whole industry at once. But General Motors, once burned, is against it. It is also leary of cooperation with the rest of the industry lest it bring down the antitrust lawyers. Thus, unlike steel, where the strongest company does the talking, the auto-industry pattern will probably again be set by Ford, which fits the U.A.W.'s idea...