Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sales in the second ten days of June posted a 6.8% increase in daily rate over the first ten days, and last week's production was up 9.6%. Ford Motor Co. returned to full-scale production, while Chrysler Corp. scored a 13% production boost in June. Yet even as the wheels rolled a bit faster, the industry got set for the annual model changeover shutdown. Buick production was stopped last week for approximately six weeks; Chrysler will start shutting down late this month, Plymouth in early August and Ford in September...
MONEY-LOSING CHRYSLER will get $150 million revolving credit from about 100 U.S. banks. Credit pool will run through September...
Married. Nightclub Singer-Comedienne Dorothy ("The Park Avenue Hillbilly") Shay (real name: Dorothy Sims), 35; and Richard C. Looman, 38, West Coast P.R. man for Chrysler Corp.; she for the first time, he for the second; in Brentwood, Calif...
...good the "no-contract, no-work" threat that it has used against the auto companies before, G.M. stepped up the pressure. It stopped collecting union dues by payroll checkoff, and told union shop stewards that they can spend only half their working hours on union business. Ford and Chrysler, whose contracts expired three days after G.M.'s, followed the G.M. formula for operating in the no-contract period. If there are no contracts by the end of June, automakers may shut down. With a backlog of 760,000 cars, automakers prefer a showdown in the next few weeks...
Letting his fins down, Clare Briggs, Chrysler Corp. vice president, last week issued some plain talk on what is wrong with the auto business. "Many salesmen don't know how to sell," he said, auto service is bad, and the quality of cars is "not as good as ten years ago." The auto industry, admitted Briggs, "has treated the public badly, to say it mildly...