Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most motorists know the names of the three men who rank just below Alfred P. Sloan in the management and operation of General Motors: William S. Knudsen, Donaldson Brown, Charles F. Kettering. Not so well known are the three topnotch assistants of Walter P. Chrysler: K. (for Kaufman) T. (for Thuma) Keller, Fred Morrell Zeder, B. Edwin Hutchinson. Engineer Keller was hired from General Motors by Walter Chrysler in 1926 to consolidate the manufacturing plants of Dodge Bros. He stayed on to become Chrysler vice president in charge of production. Mr. Zeder was chief engineer at Studebaker in 1924 when...
Last week Walter P. Chrysler moved out of the presidency of Chrysler Corp. and each of his three executive assistants moved up. Vice President Keller became president, Treasurer Hutchinson became chairman of the finance committee and Chief Engineer Zeder vice chairman of the board of directors, of which Walter Chrysler continues to be chairman. The shifts came at an auspicious time because Chrysler Corp. had just finished one of the most spectacular half-years in history with profits of $18,659,000 and production at an all-time high (TIME, July...
...Chrysler Corp., in its semi-annual report issued this week, showed 818,700,000 profits-more than 100% better than during the first half of 1934. Chrysler sales, 487,157 units, were the largest of any six months in the corporation's history...
...many local Ukrainians, Scots, Scandinavians, Slavs. Choir singers were Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists. More than forty organizations and 17 nationalities were to be richly represented. But Detroiters were proudest of the workmen who stood for their city's No. 1 industry-the men who make automobiles for Chrysler, Hudson and General Motors...
...Chrysler's male choir, the most up & coming group, owes its existence to little Tom Lewis, a bespectacled Welshman who as a boy worked in the mines and had his greatest fun at the yearly eisteddfod. In the Chrysler factory Tom Lewis found eight other Welshmen who liked to sing with him. Encouraged, he corralled more workers-a millwright, a metal finisher, a carpenter, a stockman. Two hundred sang with him at the Festival last week, a bit self-conscious in their dressed-up clothes but lustily sure of the songs ("Cornfield Melodies," "Galway Piper") that Tom Lewis...