Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chrysler Corp. President Lester Colbert: automobiles on superhighways may be driven by electronic "automatic pilots," with human guidance required only at exits and entrances...
...that I had contemplated this move for two or three years because of increasing outside activities." Rebellious Captive. Other retiring directors had even less to say. For the record, Stanton Griffis, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Spain, was in Paris. Investment Banker Jansen Noyes and Motor Millionaire Walter P. Chrysler Jr. were "out of town." Financier William M. Greve, a man who temporarily gave up his U.S. citizenship in the 1930s, then returned home hurriedly from Liechtenstein just two jumps ahead of Hitler, was keeping his own counsel. One of the departing directors, demanding anonymity, told reporters: "We figured...
Three-Year Preparation. In 1950, the year he won his last great gains in five-year contracts with the auto industry's Big Three (General Motors, Ford and Chrysler), Reuther was already working to win the guaranteed annual wage in the new contract this year. His economists and researchers worked over the figures for three years before agreeing that the guaranteed annual wage (G.A.W.) was practical: "Industry can afford it." His busy educational division churned out pamphlets, posters and propaganda. Auto workers were warned repeatedly that growing automation would cause increasing layoffs unless the workers were protected by G.A.W...
...record $139 million, while food dipped 2.8% to come in second with $129 million. The biggest single U.S. advertiser for the eighth straight year: General Motors, whose ad outlay jumped 13.5% to an alltime high of $37.3 million. The next nine, in order: Ford Motor Co., $17,999,652; Chrysler Corp.,$11,787,596; Colgate-Palmolive...
MEDIUM-PRICED FORD will be developed by Ford's New Products Division. Industrial Designer George W. Walker, who designed Ford's pace-setting 1949 model, has been named vice president in charge of styling, responsible for producing the new series to compete with Chrysler, Oldsmobile and Buick in the $3,100 to $3,500 price range, midway between Ford's most expensive Mercury and its cheapest Lincoln...