Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...topspeed of 120 m.p.h., lands at 42. Its engine is geared 2-to-1, uses 4 gal. of fuel per hour. It has a standard Plymouth instrument board adapted for airplane use. Following successful test-flights last week, the Department of Commerce promptly ordered a Plymacoupe through Chrysler Motors' Amplex Division, planned more tests...
...Chrysler Corp...
...oust Chairman Archie Moulton Andrews from Hupp Motor Car Corp. (TIME, March 11). At the suggestion of a Federal judge in Detroit the warring factions settled on a board consisting of one-half pro-Andrews directors, one-half anti-Andrews. Named as president was Vern R. Drum, oldtime Chrysler man who has lately been Hupp's production manager. Meantime in Washington in hearings on the New York Stock Exchange's request for permission to de-list Hupp stock, the Securities & Exchange Commission continued to quiz Promoter Andrews on his involved Hupp contracts, one of which SECounsel John...
Bigger profits from bigger sales has by no means been a business axiom since the New Deal. Cost of labor and materials tended to jump faster than the price of finished products. But Chrysler in the March quarter boosted its sales 57%, its profits 177%. How Mr. Chrysler made so much money in three short months puzzled Wall Street, for no bookkeeping tricks accounted for the gain. Most credible explanation...
Determined to squeeze some dividends from its expanding business,. Chrysler kept its retooling expenses at a minimum last autumn. Independent front wheel springing was taken off the Plymouth, saving perhaps as much as $10 per car. A simpler ventilating system saved another $2 or $3 per unit. With none of the plant upheaval or unbudgeted expenses that always accompany the introduction of a radical new model, Chrysler got off to a flying start...