Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the other members of autodom's Big Three came equally chill words. Chrysler's Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert sent word that in his view Reuther was proposing to "fight inflation by making a whole series of new inflationary demands." Ford's Board Chairman Ernest Breech, speaking in Nashville, said "giant labor unions, with unprecedented monopoly power." are putting a "steady squeeze on corporate profits and constantly increasing the price for goods and services...
...took an LL.B. ('08) and a B.A. ('12), wise, devoted Bill Griffin started a business career without any sign of a silver spoon, became a trustee of the estate of James C. Brady and chairman of the board of the Brady Security & Realty Corp.; invested in Chrysler in the '205, was soon a member of the board of directors of the Bank of Manhattan, Continental Oil Co. and more than a dozen other large industrial and financial corporations. Wartime ("dollar-a-year") special assistant to the administrator of the lend-lease program, later director of its British...
...well upward of 20 Thors into Europe with "initial operational capability" this year. Thor is guided by an inertial direction system backed up by an alternate method, is powered by a single rocket engine that generates a big kick of 135,000 lbs. Recently Defense Secretary Neil McElroy ordered Chrysler to get a production line set up for the Army's liquid-fuel 1,500-mile Jupiter, and hopes to deliver a dozen or so Jupiters to NATO late this year. One of Jupiter's several major weaknesses is that fueling and other primping take so long that...
...higher than the previous week in 1958). Automakers slashed first-quarter production schedules by 13% from the total projected a few weeks ago. In the slowdown more than 9% of Detroit's work force was idle. General Motors has laid off about 6,000; Chrysler last week passed out 4,000 pink slips and more were coming...
...Army signed a $51.8 million contract with Chrysler Corp., Detroit, covering $21.8 million in continuing procurement of the 200-mile-range Redstone missiles and $30 million for finishing the tooling up and ground support for the longer-range (1,500-mile) Jupiter missile...