Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cliches." The same man, or someone just like him, is now roving through television as vice president in charge of promoting annual, trumped-up presentations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. For the first of this season's versions, televised last week, the VP persuaded CBS and Chrysler's Shower of Stars to turn the durable old holiday cliche into elaborate but dismal humbug...
...Enough Cars. Chrysler's Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, embarrassed by his own shortage of cars (TIME, Dec. 10), said that "by all present indications, the retail market for cars in 1957 should be bigger by a substantial margin." For one reason, buyers would be in a stronger position than in 1956, when many of them were paying off the autos they bought in the record year of 1955. Said Colbert: "A substantial percentage of those who purchased new cars in 1955 on the installment plan have already paid off these obligations, or will have them paid off some time...
...this November they trimmed output to 577,843, an annual rate of about 6,900,000, and were determined to hold to that level, with this month's production slated to be 600,000. At least one of the Big Three, Chrysler, talked of "leveling out" production, aiming to produce a steady flow of cars throughout the year to increase efficiency, decrease layoffs avoid overstocking dealers...
...From left: Diamond T Motor Car Co. Vice Chairman E. J. Bush, Studebaker-Packard President Harold E. Churchill, G.M.'s Curtice, Ford's Ford, Chrysler's Colbert, American Motors President George Romney...
...CHRYSLER PRODUCTION slump is worrying dealers, who complain that they cannot get enough cars to meet big demand, that Plymouth station-wagon delivery has not even begun. Dealers ordered 350,000 Chrysler cars in first month after introduction of new models, but Chrysler will roll out only 252,000 autos by January. Reason: strikes and production trouble because Chrysler rushed complete redesign of all models in 20 months v. normal lead time of three years...