Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chrysler Corporation gave the U.S. its first good look last week at its defense effort which is tremendous...
Every August newspapermen are invited to Detroit for a preview of Chrysler's new models (see p. 57). This year the preview was mostly tanks, bomber fuselages, anti-aircraft guns, Army trucks. When, at the end of a six-hour tour of defense production, a Chrysler official sarcastically suggested that the newspapermen might also want to see the new cars, a wag said: "Yeah, we might as well have a look at the by-product...
Knee-deep in its $400,000,000 worth of war orders, Chrysler should be in all the way by February. Then M-3 medium tanks should be rolling off 15 a day (against 5 a day now); then the assembling of Martin B-26 medium bomber fuselages should be started; then Bofors 40-mm. anti-aircraft guns should be in production. Already Chrysler's engineering department and laboratories are working 85% of their time on defense, developing a 2,000 h.p. airplane engine, a 500 h.p. liquid-cooled tank engine; a new airplane landing gear strut, etc. Half...
General Motors 361,815 29.2 Chrysler 188,849 31.4 Ford 151,845 16.9 Majors 702,509 27.6 Studebaker 35,289 23.5 Hudson 25,874 38.2 Nash 21,972 4.9* Packard 23,056 10.3 Willys-Overland 7,768 7.1 Crosley 333 80.0* Independents 114,292 20.2 All companies...
Herbert Spencer Polin, a young (32) scientist whose home office is a laboratory on the 71st floor of Manhattan's Chrysler Building, got interested in coffee five years ago when Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. hired him for research on roasting methods. Finding that coffee contains all the chemical components of plastics, he went to work on his own to develop a process for combining them...