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...dilemma to the public was James Lee, a son of the late, famed Press Agent Ivy Lee (whom Laborites still remember as "Poison Ivy"). To the press and to dealers facing a shortage of cars at the start of their new season, Chrysler's President K. T. Keller sent a letter: "We are getting practically no production from any of our Detroit plants. . . . You cannot run a business on a sound basis and produce quality automobiles if men . . . take into their own hands the running of the plants." To bulbous, loud Richard Frankensteen...
...first two years in his new job K. T. Keller steered Chrysler Corp. through some muddy business roads, but Chrysler's sales hit their top in 1937: $769,807,839. And when Chrysler's report for the first six months of 1939 was published in August, he had some sensational news for U. S. business. After a miserable depression year, Chrysler's sales had jumped to $342,788,293, up a whacking 82% from the first half of 1938. For the rest of this year Chrysler, like the rest of the U. S. motor industry (see below...
...Keller that is no more reason for taking life easier than it is for any other Detroit motormaker. "This game," he says, "isn't a puzzle that you can lay down and pick up again; it's like a bridge hand and you have to play it every minute...
Last week, K. T. Keller was busiest in the engineering department where Chrysler's smart research staff is already busy on 1941 models. It is there the first work is done on K. T. Keller's only recipe for a successful business: "Put out a good product: if it's lousy, you better quit...
...stems from the machinist's bench and burgeons in a burning urge to put out a good product in quantity for low-priced sale, the U. S. motor industry owes its spectacular growth in the U. S. Most of its topflight executives, men like Ford, Chrysler, Knudsen and Keller, had nothing but their two hands and a kit of tools when they went to work...