Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chrysler Corp. went a $54,500,000 contract to build medium-sized tanks, of which the U. S. now has none...
Into their handsome board room on the 26th floor of Manhattan's spike-topped Chrysler Building last week strode 15 grave directors of $661,067,033 Texas Corp. Eleven of them were there to debate the fate of their $100,000-a-year chairman - hardheaded Torkild Rieber, Norwegian-born onetime tanker master. Three, officers of the company, had come to listen. In the witness chair was Oilman Rieber. Out side, in the anteroom, were war and Adolf Hitler...
...generous, powerfully built man who slapped them on the back and said: "This is the best God damn company in the world"; who built the famed Barco pipeline in Colombia after they said it couldn't be done; who once exclaimed: "Hell, if they wanted to move the Chrysler Building to Colombia, we'd do it-if they'd pay us for it." And around Manhattan's 52nd Street, habitues of "21" wondered what the club would be like without the old salt and his stories...
Died. Walter P. Chrysler, 65, locomotive wiper who became one of the three greatest automobile producers in the U. S.; after long illness; in Great Neck, Long Island. Son of a railroad engineer, Machinist Chrysler in 1905 bought an automobile with $700 savings, a $4,300 loan, kept taking it apart and reassembling it until he found what made it tick. In 1911 he resigned a $12,000-a-year job as general manager of American Locomotive Co. to work for Buick at half the pay. Two-fisted, paternal Tycoon Chrysler drove himself and his men, thought "the one reasonably...
Today, besides XEW, Azcarraga, through Mexican Broadcasting Co., operates the 50,000 watt-station XEQ at Mexico City and the ornate Teatro Alamedo. With one of his brothers supervising a Chrysler assembly plant, another handling the distribution of RCA Victor sets in Mexico City, Azcarraga, known as Don Emilio to his intimates, makes plenty of time sales in the family circle...