Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beat plowshares into swords the U.S. Government has placed $1,900,000,000 in orders with Ford and General Motors. In the Detroit area, where Chrysler had showed the public what it was doing with its $400,000,000 in national-defense orders (TIME, Sept. 8), Ford and G.M. last week gave a condensed exhibition of what the rest of motors' Big Three was doing...
Under the impact of the shows, run on successive days (with new motorcar model exhibitions as a sideshow-see p. 76), the eyes and pencils of 500 newsmen reeled. For in switching a big part of their vast productive machinery to making implements of war, G.M. and Ford (like Chrysler) have gone in for a more bewildering variety of products than they ever made before. News stories of the two shows were crammed with lists and statistics, from pinhead-sized ball bearings to four-motored bombers, passed over the new automobiles with a once-over-lightly...
...British have brought their Middle Eastern strength to a dozen divisions-but less than half of them are properly equipped for offensive action. British matériel is being hurried straight through the Mediterranean. All the while U.S. stuff is trickling in - Tomahawks, Marylands, Chrysler tanks, ammunition, trucks, spare parts. The British will have to try, sooner or later, to open up Tobruk: two-thirds of all the motor transport they had in North Africa were trapped there in the retreat last April...
Died. Harold Craig Severance, 62, designer of the Manhattan Company Building, world's fourth tallest commercial structure; in Neptune, N.J. Completed in 1930 in an "altitude race" with the Chrysler Building, the bank was the world's tallest office building (927 ft.) until a few months later when the Chrysler's crowning spike touched...
Plymouth has switched from aluminum to cast-iron pistons, is using more of Chrysler's new Amola steel-a high test metal using no imported alloys. Their prices still unannounced (rumor: a $100 boost), Plymouths come in eleven body styles (13 last year), and such defense-conscious colors as Airwing Grey, Battalion Beige, Artillery Green. Horsepower is up from 87 to 95 with no up in gas consumption...