Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farm to Factory. Four months ago the site of the Detroit Tank Arsenal was a farm, turning brown and sere under a hazy autumn sun. During the summer Big Bill Knudsen had called bulky K. T. Keller, president of Chrysler Corp., and asked him, as one motormaker to another: Could Chrysler build the Army a medium tank? "K. T." said, sure. Could he see one to get an idea what it was like...
...building where the 25-tonners would be made. Driven by hardboiled, big-jawed Eddie Hunt, a mechanic and production man ever since he was old enough to hold a wrench in his big paws, they worked seven days a week, had things in shape by Aug. 15, when Chrysler and the U. S. Army finally signed the contract...
...contract called for a $20,000,000 arsenal to be built by Chrysler (Chrysler's fee: $1) for the Government, an initial order of 1,000 tanks at $33,500 apiece. Eddie Hunt said he could roll the first tank off the line within twelve months from contract date: that was Chrysler's promise...
...German refugee from the galleries of Paris, London and Berlin, Curt Valentin settled in Manhattan four years ago, opened a gallery with the help of art-loving Motor Scion Walter P. Chrysler Jr., for whom he had bought many a picture. He quickly made a name as one of the most progressive and choosy of syth Street's art impresarios. But morose Impresario Valentin dislikes selling pictures, would rather have a job in a museum. Says he sadly: "Gallery business is sometimes fun, but I hate having to make money...
...acting, Du Pont, G. M., Chrysler and others like them had made their peace with the Revolution. They showed the rest of Business a way both to stay in business and to keep out of trouble. In making that deal, Business might or might not believe in the emergency; it did not care to say. It was of no moment, for Business was no longer in power...