Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Test drivers at the Chrysler tank arsenal threatened to strike because the proving grounds were dusty. When the company sprinkled them, the drivers threatened to strike because they were...
Married. Walter P. Chrysler Jr., 35, ex-Navy lieutenant, wavy-haired heir to one-quarter of the Chrysler motor millions, lord of a horsy 1,000-acre Warrenton, Va. plantation with a 72-room manor house and 70 outbuildings; and tall, svelte Jean Esther Outland, 23, pretty blond gym teacher at Virginia's College of William and Mary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Norfolk...
...passed up Herbert Hoover, just elected President, because that year was the businessman's year and Walter P. Chrysler was his symbol. When Business crashed in 1929 we passed by Hoover again, skipped over Explorer Byrd and Peace-Pacter Kellogg in favor of Owen D. Young, back from Paris with his plan for settling Europe's troubles under...
This week Chrysler's Dodge Division announced that shipment to India of several thousand trucks of special design for the Road was begun in October. Presumably the Army wanted China to know that help was near. While the trucks waited Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan last week had Bhamo surrounded, needed only 65 more miles to link India with the Burma Road. Because the Japs' main bodies had been forced toward south Burma, there was some reason to hope that the 65 miles might not be too long or too bloody...
...would have only 17% of the machine tools needed to turn out 50% of its prewar car production (the quota tentatively set by WPB). The rest of the tools are not even promised until next June 1. K. T. Keller, the chunky, soft-voiced boss of Chrysler Corp., deftly added some dark shading. "Before Chrysler can build its first car, it must clear 17,000,000 square feet of floor space . . . install 1,000 miles of conveyors, and set up at least 24,000 machine tools...