Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chrysler...
...Chrysler Imperial...
...CHRYSLER GENERAL MOTORS...
There are, however, some major differences between the two units. Direction of General Motors is divided, impersonal; Chrysler Motors, like the Ford company, is united under one chief.* General Motors uses the financial wizards of the Raskob-du Pont type; Chrysler relies chiefly on Walter P. Chrysler. General Motors is close to J. P. Morgan & Co.; Chrysler is the good friend of the Brady family and, more recently, of Dillon, Read & Co. General Motors has issued the huge total of 43,500,000 shares of common stock,† Chrysler only 4,423,484. General Motors sold 1,576,708 cars...
...Chrysler does not ignore the lead with which General Motors starts the contest. But he sees no limit to the markets over which the two motor-monsters can struggle. Last September, he visioned a world which is learning the uses of the automobile: "It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world. . . . Road building is taking root in Australia, vast Africa, Spain, South America. . . . Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile...