Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power conference. The tide turned. During the next hour buying orders for 700,000 shares jammed every brokerage house in Wall Street. The ticker dropped six minutes behind. An order for 15,000 shares of U.S. Rubber jumped the price from $40.75 to $45. General Motors was up $2.25, Chrysler $2.63. At day's end, the Dow-Jones industrial average was up almost six points from the morning's low of 127.85. At week's end the average had reached 143.13, highest since August...
...ready to split in two. A sample of how costly jurisdictional strikes could prove in the automobile industry at the start of the 1939 production season was meanwhile provided in Detroit: soon after workers struck in Briggs Manufacturing Co. (against "speedup"), 7,000 employes in Chrysler's Plymouth division had to be laid off because they could not work without Briggs bodies...
...Circuit Court Judge Julian Mack (receiverships). The War and the Jews' plight brought Cohen into contact with Louis Dembitz Brandeis. He is still a director of Palestine Economic Corp., wherein he first tasted planned economy. In the reckless 19205 he was not above playing the stockmarket. A killing Chrysler stock (he was so excited about it at the time that he used gleefully to point to every Chrysler he saw on the street) made him temporarily rich. He kept enough pelf for comfort, is not "socialistic because of the Crash." Revisiting Harvard in 1924, Ben Cohen walked into...
Died. Della Forker Chrysler, 62, for 37 years the wife of Motorman Walter P. Chrysler, mother of his two daughters, two sons; after a cerebral hemorrhage; at Kings Point...
...Began an investigation of monopolistic practices in the automobile industry. Though Congress failed to appropriate the $50,000 this will cost (TIME, May 9), FTC sent its snoopers into the field last week to ruffle the ledgers of Chrysler, Ford and General Motors...