Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mock Tokyo, traders on the New York Stock Exchange put on another show of confidence, last week boosted stocks to new highs for the year. Typical gains: American Airlines 5⅛ points, Chrysler 1¾, Du Pont 4½, Monsanto Chemical 3⅜, Norfolk & Western 6⅜, U.S. Steel...
...Chicago, Chrysler Corp. was completing an airplane motor factory bigger than even famed Willow Run. (see p. 92). Three coastlines were now a-clatter with shipyards. (Henry J. Kaiser, who had never built a ship until 20 months ago, now has built 320.) And from Michigan, center of U.S. mass production, came another significant announcement: the Detroit area, which produced only $36 million worth of materiel before Pearl Harbor, had produced $1,100 million since...
General Motors men wander freely in Ford's Willow Run; Ford men consult Chrysler men; Chrysler men lunch over blueprints with G.M. men; back-alley machine-shop men ask big-company engineers for help...
...Council works closely with the industry's War Engineering Board, which tackles the larger problems of methods and materials. To save welding, Fisher engineers worked out a system for bending tank armor on the presses that used to stamp out auto bodies, promptly offered it to Chrysler and Ford. G.M. had to make its own machines to bore turrets, so it made some for Ford and Chrysler too. Ford developed a new, better compound for molding ignition parts, which Pratt & Whitney now uses. "Liquid forging," a Ford casting method, releases forging equipment for other work, saves large amounts...
After much pencil chewing the four copies came back to Bradley. Heads were on-one copyreader left the "s" out of Chrysler. But not one had questioned the sense or facts of any of the fantasy...