Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first night the President's train sped north, then west. Morning brought Detroit. At the Chrysler Tank Arsenal, 300 soldiers swiftly took their posts. FBI agents blocked the doors, the overhead cranes jolted to a sudden stop. Out of the Presidential train rolled the White House phaeton, its top down, the bulletproof windows up. Franklin Roosevelt stepped in. Chrysler's wise, bulky President K. T. Keller eased into one of the jump seats...
Same day that the President issued his decree fixing wages and farm prices, the War Labor Board discovered a new formula under which to allow Chrysler wages (which Chrysler calls the highest in the auto industry) to be upped 4? an hour...
Last month the Board gave General Motors labor a 4?-an-hour raise on the grounds that G.M. pay was lower than Ford's. Since Chrysler wage rates were higher than either, the next question was whether Ford and G.M. would both have to be upped to equal Chrysler? Apparently not, for WLB seems to have figured out that a difference is different from a differential and is not necessarily an inequality. Said WLB last week...
...They worry about their homes and children. "Women can perform 80% of all the war jobs now engaged in by men," claims Dr. Carey P. McCord, medical director of the Chrysler Corp., "but too many women are being absent from work because they must catch up on their housework...
...Continental has about 10,000 employes, it is the No. 1 maker of 440 h.p. air-cooled radial tank engines, ships thousands of them each month to Chrysler, American Locomotive, other tank builders. At another plant, workers piece together hundreds of 275-h.p. radials for training planes, scores of compact "Red Seal" engines for trucks, busses, mining equipment. Reese spent $3,100,000 on betterments last year, is spending $700,000 this year. Meanwhile he is hard at work testing a huge, 2,000-h.p. liquid-cooled engine designed for the mammoth cargo planes now planned by many U.S. aircraft...