Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit News and Secretary of the Navy Knox's Chicago News printed a report that Chrysler Corp. had taken a $100,000,000 contract to build a bomber engine plant in Chicago. Scooped correspondents besieged an officer responsible for such announcements. Said he: "Even if it's true, you can't print it," ignoring the patent fact that it had just been printed. The War Department then retreated to a second line: okay, the contract is news, but don't use the name or type of engine Chrysler is to build. Lieut. General William S. Knudsen...
General Motors expects to employ 450,000 persons (previous top: 303,000); Ford 200,000, including 25,000 women among the 100,000 employes of its bomber plant; Chrysler-130,000 compared to its previous high of 65.000. The correspondents wrote about production lines miles long. . . . Chrysler making at least $675,000,000 worth of tanks, planes and guns in 1942. . . . Ford with eleven miles of airplane runways at Willow Run . . . eleven miles of statistics which all boil down to the biggest, the best, the fastest, the most...
...Dodge, all Chrysler and G.M.'s Chevrolet and Pontiac assembly lines stopped for the duration last week. Others will dribble along for another week or ten days. Chrysler figured 40,000 of its men would be temporarily idle, G.M. 120,000. But Conversion Tsar Ernest Kanzler thinks Detroit alone will have 600,000 war jobs by year...
After the biggest year in radio history ($180,000,000 in net time sales, 13,800,000 sets sold, new record billings by CBS, NBC and Mutual), the exodus of war-hit industries from the air began in force last week. Chrysler Corp. cut down Major Bowes to a half-hour (CBS, Thurs. 9 p.m. E.S.T.); Lipton's Tea canceled Helen Hayes after Feb. 1 (CBS, Sunday 8 p.m. E.S.T.); then the Ford Motor Co. canceled the Ford Sunday Evening Hour (CBS, 9 p.m. E.S.T.), effective March 1. This was a grievous blow, and radiomen looked for more...
...deputy, Kanzler has the power* to rip machine tools out of G.M., hand them to Ford; he can take brains and manpower from Packard, give them to Nash. Whether such pooling would be attempted was undecided this week. Detroit dopesters expected Kanzler to ring himself with specialists: Chrysler's fast-moving Eddie Hunt for tank production, Ford's burly Charles Sorensen for bombers, G.M.'s Ormond Hunt (no kin to Eddie) for ordnance work...