Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia, train-building Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. turned out its millionth aerial bomb. > In Detroit, where Ford and General Motors are getting ready to join Chrysler in producing tanks, the national production rate (now about 25 a day) is expected to reach 100 a day by spring...
...subcontracts. In a city like Toledo, that is chicken feed. Toledo is chiefly a partsmaker for Detroit; and with Detroit auto production scheduled for a 48.4% curtailment in December, Toledo's 51 parts plants felt the blow first. Auto-Lite had laid off 1,500 men because Chrysler would need fewer ignition systems, batteries, instruments. Of Toledo's 54,600 industrial workers, 4,000 were already out of jobs. In the next six to nine months, another 100,000 Ohio workmen would follow them-according to an estimate last week by 0PM itself...
Ford officials in Detroit last week confirmed a portentous rumor: Ford will go into the manufacture of Army tanks -mediums like those that Chrysler now turns out at the rate of seven a day. Fortnight before, General Motors had announced that it was also getting ready to build mediums...
...changed World War II's pattern by invading Russia, the scope of U.S. production as now set up might well have proved ample. The output of tanks, now around 400 a month, is well ahead of the Army's original estimates. Big contractors already in production, besides Chrysler, are American Car & Foundry Co. (light tanks) and Baldwin Locomotive and American Locomotive (mediums). When all are rolling at top speed (e.g., Chrysler, 15 a day) the output (round figure: 20,000 a year) will meet the demands of the Army and Lend-Lease - as of six months...
Dodge develops 105 h.p. (last year 91) but is said to use less gasoline. A squarish, glittering grille extends from headlight to headlight. Running counter to the G.M. trend, Chrysler has made the Dodge fenders short and compact; they resemble the "pants" on aircraft wheels. Tourists' gadget: a map light set in the middle of the instrument panels...