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Word: chryslers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...automobile manufacturers would have had to turn over to the Government most of the profits they might have made on the cars banned by the quota agreement. G.M., with an estimated excess-profits exemption of $180,700,000, earned $236,388,227 last year before excess-profits tax deductions. Chrysler, with an exemption of $32,500,000, earned $44,802,279 last year. Since all earnings of $500,000 or more above the exemption are already subject to a 50% excess-profits tax after paying the maximum 24% regular corporation levy may be taxed still more heavily next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Quotas in Detroit | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Other record breakers: Chrysler Corp. (up an estimated 40% over 1940), Studebaker (30,298, up 35%), Nash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Shift to High Gear | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Most members of I Am are female, middle-aged, and well-to-do, according to Miller. They travel around the country in large yellow Chryslers, which serve the double function of comfortable conveyances and religious observance. For believers in I Am are convinced that yellow and white are good colors, while purple is a wicked one. It seems that every person has an invisible white light hanging constantly over him, which is repelled by a purple ray generated by his evil and impure thoughts. Apparently the ownership of a yellow Chrysler helps you to live cleanly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 4/17/1941 | See Source »

...armored hulk, abristle with four machine guns and two cannon, seven tons heavier than the few medium tanks already in service. The Army last week had only this one model, but within two or three months medium tanks should begin to roll from three new tank factories (Chrysler, American Locomotive, Baldwin Locomotive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: M3 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...hand at selling airplanes, found he was a little ahead of his time. He switched to a two-by-four used-car agency, soon made the happy discovery that there was nothing like the automobile business for a supersalesman in the '205. By 1929 he was Chrysler's distributor for its new De Soto in all of northern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Taxi Salesman | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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