Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holabird & Root buildings reflect the quick brilliance of Root, the patient logic of Holabird. All Chicago knows their towering railroad-straddling Daily News Building, their Palmolive Building topped by the Lindbergh beacon, their Board of Trade Building which spans La Salle Street, their swift, swirling Chrysler Building on the Fair Grounds...
Last week, with Cheshire House dormant, Walter Chrysler Jr. announced his debut into the industrial world as chair-man and president of a new sales corporation to market air conditioners. Its name: Temperature Corp. On its board of directors were Mr. Foy and Mr. Garbisch and Motormaker Chrysler's youngest son Jack. The elder Chrysler had put up most of Temperature Corp.'s $350,000 capital...
...shining stars adorn the family diadem of Walter P. Chrysler. Son-in-law Byron Cecil Foy, who married Mr. Chrysler's eldest daughter Thelma, is, at 40, president of Chrysler-owned De Soto Motor Corp., famed sponsor of its airflow models. Son-in-law Edgar William Garbisch, 32, a burly West Point footballer who married Mr. Chrysler's second daughter Bernice, went to work for J. Stirling Getchell, Inc., Manhattan advertising agency which handles most Chrysler advertising, startled himself and friends by bagging the huge Socony-Vacuum account. Last week Motormaker Chrysler's chunky, art-loving son Walter...
Last week Temperature Corp. opened its doors to the public in a sleek, black-walled showroom in Manhattan's Chrysler Building. Banker friends of Walter Chrysler Sr. dropped in the first day to shake hands with his son. Hotel managers popped in to have a look at the little, air-cooling, air-washing, dehumidifying device which Temperature Corp. will sell for $175 plus installation and condensing unit. "Airtemp" will be manufactured in Detroit by Amplex Manufacturing Co., a division of Chrysler Motors. Standing less than three feet high, the cabinet is attached to an ordinary electric base plug and water...
...invading the small-unit air conditioning field, Chrysler Motors was following the lead of General Motors whose Frigidaire air conditioner was put on the market eight years ago. Chrysler's plan is to cheapen cost and price by mass production, by simplifying the mechanics of the unit. Today a homeowner or office manager looking for air conditioners has a score or more to choose from. Frigidaire's unit, which has a refrigeration capacity of three-eighths of a ton, sells for $340 including condenser but without installation. This year Frigidaire has an air conditioned house at the Chicago Fair. General...