Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four Fisher brothers (TIME, Aug. 14). The dope had it that the Fishers were going to: 1) buy aging Henry Ford's titanic empire; or 2) buy control of three or four smaller companies and merge these into one automaker powerful enough to buck Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. (Wall Street could trace neither rumor to fact...
...Chrysler coupe pulled up in front of the home of Mrs. Truman's brother, George Wallace. The Senator, his wife, and blonde, 20-year-old daughter Margaret washed up and had a little supper while they chatted about Chicago. It was the usual quiet Sunday night in Independence, Mo. (pop: 16,066). Few of the neighbors noticed the hatless, coatless nominee for the U.S. Vice-Presidency...
When it is so easy for you to obtain the true facts about the Chrysler strike in Detroit [TIME, June 5], it seems to me that you deliberately mislead your readers when you say "Basis of the dispute: whether A.F. of L. or C.I.O. truckmen should deliver soda pop to the plants. Unioneer Thomas promptly ousted 15 officers of a U.A.W. local for participating in the 'soda...
...year ago, Exchange President Emil Schram cried out a warning against the unhealthy boom in the low-priced "cat & dog" stocks (TIME, March 15, 1943). Last week, the "blue chips" led the parade of some 245 stocks onto new high ground. A.T. & T. hit a three-year peak, while Chrysler, Westinghouse, General Motors, Du Pont and many a retail-store stock reached new highs for 1944. And the tone had changed. Grumblers had long complained that every slip of the market meant that U.S. investors have no faith in the peace. But now, day after day, "peace" stocks charged ahead...
These words, heard by all U.S. labor, had particular pertinence to burly Rolland Jay Thomas' own union. U.A.W., largest union in the U.S. and at times the most ungovernable, was halving wildcat trouble again last week. Seven U.A.W.-organized Chrysler plants (11,700 employes) stopped making guns, plane and truck parts. Basis of the dispute: whether A.F. of L. or C.I.O. truckmen should deliver soda pop to the plants. Unioneer Thomas promptly ousted 15 officers of a U.A.W. local for participating in the "soda pop war," instructed his men to ignore picketlines...