Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good. Said Chrysler's Vice President B. Edwin Hutchinson, as the morning drew to a close: "We'll go back and break our necks...
Even in billion-calloused, production-booming January 1942, these figures at first seemed fantastic. Only 18 months ago, U.S. output was around 500 planes monthly; the first medium tank rolled off Chrysler's line only eight months ago; monthly output of anti-aircraft guns is still in low hundreds. Merchant shipbuilding last year just edged over 1,100,000 tons. But this was when war work was a side show to business-as-usual. Now war is going under...
Regular tank producers, meanwhile, are stepping out. Chrysler-biggest medium tank outfit-is starting to triple its plant. Ford is rushing work on his Highland Park factory, hopes to make 400 mediums a month before year's end. General Motors' Cadillac division is retooling for light tanks; Fisher Body will be turning out medium & heavy tanks by the fourth quarter...
Anti-aircraft Guns. Washington is hush-hush about gun production, antiaircraft and otherwise. But OPM is optimistic, figures that the auto industry will do most of the work. Pontiac and Chrysler are already making Orelikons and Bofors...
This astronomic increase came out of a Washington confab between the auto makers, the Army & Navy and SPAB. First official announcement came from Chrysler which said it had been asked to triple its tank output (its tank arsenal is already the world's largest), double its output of anti-aircraft guns. One sign of total collaboration-to-come between Detroit and Washington: G.M. created a new War Emergency Committee under Vice Chairman Donaldson Brown, and sent arch-diplomat Dick Grant to Washington for the duration...