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Word: chryslers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chrysler workers in the Windsor and Chatham plants voted to take a strike ballot on the company's refusal to grant a $2-a-day increase and a 40-hour week. But in eastern Ontario 2,000 dairy farmers, representing 40,000 producers, threatened to call a milk strike on June 15 if their prices were not raised $3 per 100 lbs. There was only one note of cheer. The two-month-old strike of 400 National Brewery employes in Montreal finally ended last week. The strikers went back to work, though they had been granted none of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Strikes Are Inevitable | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...prices. For 16 makes of autos the OPA announced new ceilings, averaging 4% to 8% higher than previous ones. None of the increase will be absorbed by dealers. The new f.o.b. prices, all for the popular four-door sedans, are: Dodge DeLuxe, $1,176; De Soto DeLuxe, $1,251; Chrysler Royal, $1,353; Pontiac Six, $1,127; Oldsmobile, $1,163; Buick, $1,250; Cadillac, $1,794; Nash, $1,119; Packard Six, $1,510; Hudson, $1,257; Lincoln, $1,919; Mercury, $1,241; Studebaker, $1,158. The new prices are substantially above those of 1942. Example: Ford DeLuxe four-door sedan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Up Again | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...Andre Kostelanetz, by Chrysler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: End of a Spree | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...Carnival Week, as in any week, the most spectacular figure in Memphis was still 71-year-old Mister Crump. When he passed, in a gleaming new Chrysler, sidewalk idlers gawked as if they had spied the Mad Mullah of Tud, nose ring and all, cracking pecans on the Hope Diamond. Ed Crump did not ignore them. As he rode on casual journeys through his domain he watched the pavements as sharply as a kingfisher hunting shiners; his pink face lighted at the first sign of recognition. If people turned, he snatched a wide-brimmed grey hat from his ear-long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Ring-Tailed Tooter | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...hangover cause was clear. Strikes and material shortages have thwarted production and profits for such sponsors as Chrysler, General Motors, General Electric. Sugar and grain shortages have hit such food & beverage advertisers as General Foods, Ballantine Beer, Tootsie Rolls, Pepsi-Cola. Further, the advertising dollar is not as cheap as it was in wartime, when most of it came out of taxes. Many have wondered if radio advertising is worth even a cheap dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: End of a Spree | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

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