Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the White House had some extraordinary visitors. Owen D. Young arrived for luncheon one day. Bernard M. Baruch turned up immediately afterward and Myron C. Taylor of U. S. Steel Corp. was reported to have dropped in after visiting hours that evening. Two days later Walter P. Chrysler lunched with the President off trays in his office...
Twenty-four hours after Mr. Chrysler had departed, curious correspondents trooped in for their week-end Press conference. Had the President, asked a newshawk, given his visitors any ideas on Business...
...occasion when a Texas friend lost his favorite dog, Colonel Phillips dispatched a "blue-blooded" Irish setter to replace the loss, shipping the animal in a special plane piloted by "America's Flying Stenographer." Even better publicized was his wager of a diamondback terrapin dinner that Walter P. Chrysler could not raise ten tons of tomatoes on one of Mr. Chrysler's neighboring acres (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934). Mr. Chrysler lost. Lately the Colonel's large face and broad shoulders have been appearing in Phillips soup advertising in the same way that Mr. Chrysler's face...
17th. Slept but troubled at my stomach all the last part of the night, and yet I know not why 'less it be from sleeping so far up in the air (I being on the top floor of the Chrysler Building) for I have heard tell of persons in skyscrapers getting sick from the swaying of the building; but I would not swear this was my case for also now I remember I did eat a lobster for dinner: Therefore up, and soon comes----and I to apologize for being caught breechless but he did not mind and took...
...indicated by early results. The Chicago Journal of Commerce reported that the first 280 reports of leading industrial companies showed a 54% profit increase over 1934. These companies made $676,000,000 in 1935 compared to $439,501,000 in 1934. Three companies-General Motors, U. S. Steel and Chrysler- accounted for more than $120,000,000 of the $237,000,000 increase, and, since early reports included most of the motor, motor accessory and steel companies, a few whopping gains by early reporters were unbalancing the general earnings picture. The tobacco, retail trade and food industries showed little...