Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department contract for 1,000 Pratt & Whitney airplane engines a month, has already prepared to convert all of its automobile facilities in Buffalo and Tonawanda to their manufacture. Other orders: To Ford, $140,000,000 for 4,807 Pratt & Whitneys (in addition to 4,236 already on order); to Chrysler, a $42,000,000 subcontract for Martin bomber parts; to Hudson, a $12,000,000 Martin subcontract. Detroit at last was on the way to filling its obvious wartime role: the nation's No. 1 Munitions City...
...eleven: Ford's R. I. Roberge, General Motors' Donaldson Brown, Chrysler's B. E. Hutchinson, Studebaker's Paul G. Hoffman, Willys-Overland's J. W. Frazer, Nash-Kelvinator's George Mason, Hudson's A. E. Barit, International Harvester's W. F. McAfee, Diamond T Motor's E. J. Bush, White's Robert Black, Autocar's Robert P. Page...
Cotton crossed 15? a Ib. for the first time since 1930. It was a week in which Leon needed to have all his wits about him. Instead, he got into a tiff with Chrysler Corp., infuriated cotton Congressmen, got a very bad press, and wound up with a draft of a price-fixing law, which Congress promptly tore to pieces...
...faster prices have risen, the faster has Leon brandished his only effective weapon over them-his jawbone. By last week he reminded even his friends of Hugh Johnson at the climax of NRA. Chrysler, Ford, Hudson, Nash, Studebaker had all announced price increases ranging from $10 to $53 a car. Henderson wired them a request to rescind the increase; Chrysler refused. So Leon let Chrysler have it. If everybody were as uncooperative as Chrysler, he said, the whole country's price stability would be undermined...
...this tiff, Henderson chose to occupy an unpopular salient. He picked on Chrysler's profits, which he said were about $20,000,000 (after taxes) during the first six months of this year. Nash and Studebaker, whose price increases were allowed after the Chrysler refusal, have not been making much money, and this-as well as their willingness to cooperate-was cited by OPACS men as a reason for not bearing down on them. "If a company is in a position to absorb cost increases, we're asking them to do it," said OPACS Price Director John Kenneth...