Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empires of Steel" a movie depleting the construction of the Empire State Building, will be shown by the Architectural School Friday evening at 8 o'clock in the large lecture room of Robinson Hall. In addition, another picture, probably on the Chrysler Building, will be shown. Although those movies are primarily for members of the Architectural, City Planning, and Engineering Schools, other interested members of the University are invited...
...chairman and reticent "inside" man, President John Hartford does hold posts outside the family business. He is a director of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. and several other large companies. Last week President Hartford was elected a director of Chrysler Corp...
...last minute, strikers voted down the agreement. Meantime the Board had shuttled back to Detroit where trouble had brewed during its absence. A strike for a general wage increase in the plants of Motor Products Corp. (maker of windshield frames, instrument panels, window reveals et al. for Chrysler, Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth, Hudson, Ford) had put 5,600 men out of work. The Wolman Board proposed a settlement. The strikers promptly rejected it, tore up the proposed peace terms. Short of parts, Hudson Motors shut down, temporarily threw 18,000 men out of work, was able finally to open shop...
...Chrysler led off by upping the price of Plymouth $25 to $45, Dodge $45, Chrysler sixes $40 to $55, Chrysler airflows $100 to $130. DeSoto was left unchanged. Then Studebaker added $25 to its "Dictator" and "Commander," $50 to its "President." General Motors swung into line with increases of $20 to $30 on Pontiac and Chevrolet, $65 to $130 on Buick, $35 to $65 on Oldsmobile. Cadillac V-16s went up $300, La Salles $100. Hudsons went up $5 to $75, Graham-Paiges $50, except one model. A few independents left their prices unchanged, including Packard and Nash-and Henry...
...much motor production has already been stimulated by Recovery was plain when figures for the first quarter were released last week. Chrysler had shipped 167,842 cars in the first quarter, against 58,347 for the first quarter last year. With stacks of orders still unfilled, General Motors had produced 316,604 units, nearly 100% more than for the first quarter...