Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy: 1) press the fight for price control for another 30 days, 2) if prices continued to rise, reopen wage clauses on a national scale. Then Walter Reuther, obviously hoping that the Decontrol Board was listening, threatened to reopen the Chrysler contract...
...Chrysler's tax credit of $8.6 million put the company into the black by $4,065,382 (Chrysler's profit in the first half of last year...
...labor-management strife. Some 55,000 key workers in Canadian industry were on strike, or were ready to walk out. In steel, 15,000 steelworkers were negotiating for a 19½ raise, with another 10,000 steel-fabricating workers waiting on the outcome. In Windsor and Chatham 3,500 Chrysler Corp. workers struck last week for a $2-a-day raise. Some 6,000 General Motors workers may follow them out this week. To all unions, the 15? boost for the lumbermen was the minimum they wanted...
They watched Chester Bowies' price line buckle again as Bowles reluctantly granted price increases in milk, butter and cheese which he estimated would cost the public an annual $250 million. They listened as U.A.W.'s Chrysler workers, who had won an 18½? wage boost in January, served notice of another wage demand. The Washington economists, who had hoped they could prevent a boom & bust, saw the spiral still spiraling upwards...
...sold his dental equipment for more profit than he could make in a few years of practice, and went home. A foreign businessman who bought a house for 13,000 U.S. dollars last fall sold it recently for 136,000 and has gone home to retire. The first 1946 Chrysler sedan to arrive in Shanghai was sold by an ethically intentioned American dealer for $3,000, a comfortable profit. He is now feeling like a sucker, because it was resold recently for the third time for a reported...