Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of the ten-best-dressed women in the world. Fifty style authorities moved her into the spot held for five years by Mrs. Harrison Williams, who dropped to fourth. Mrs. Stanley Mortimer Jr., daughter of the late, great Dr. Harvey Cushing, tied with the late Motor Magnate Walter Chrysler's daughter, Mrs. Byron Foy, for second place. The rest of the ten, in order: Brazil's Senhora Rodman Arturo de Heeren, Mrs. Thomas Shevlin, Señora Felipe A. Espil (wife of the Argentine Ambassador to the U.S.), Mrs. Robert W. Miller of San Francisco, Mrs. Robert...
...their 400,000 employes. In the dealers' holiday-decorated show rooms last week was the stillness of death. On Manhattan's famed automobile row new-car salesmen were thrown out like last year's license plates; in the huge show places of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, glistening cars mocked the vacant desks, the muffled telephones. Detroit's 300 dealers fired most of their 3,000 salesmen. In New Orleans and else where big dealers kicked themselves for deliberately holding down sales last quar ter (to keep out of the high income-tax brackets...
...with a new version of his plan. He bluntly aired his fight with Knudsen, who had given him the brush-off by claiming that he had no authority to take him through an auto plant to count the convertible machines. His new proposal was that when G.M., Ford and Chrysler got big orders for identical 30-ton tanks, the three should pool their facilities and subcontract to each other. This is a method of simplifying production which many industries (under the name of the Lyttleton plan) have been forced to in Britain. But the year closed before anyone knew whether...
Ford, still honeymooning with the U.A.W., asked its men to work a seven-day week until additional men could be trained. It got "unanimous response." OPM announced this week that U.S. tank makers (Chrysler, American Locomotive, American Car & Foundry) were speeding up so fast they would hit 2,800 units monthly within a year. Current rate: 840. Meanwhile, Timken Roller Bearing (busy on Navy and tank gun mounts) told how it had planned full-time production 20 months ago. Timken's "anti-blackout" schedule uses three full eight-hour shifts, a fourth swing shift to keep equipment running...
...first lesson concerned fire power. After having scoffed at the U.S. Army for the way it "overgunned" its tanks (a 75-mm. cannon, a 37-mm. cannon and four .30-caliber machine guns in the Chrysler M3, for instance), the British found that fire power is the first requirement of a tank-eating tank. Their own tanks, whose primary armament consists of the two-pounder gun (approximately the same as the 37-mm. cannon), were no match for German tanks carrying thirteen-pounders (roughly...