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...York ("We've bought the Dodge-put up your signs") he knew what to do. Within a year he was president of Dodge and his brilliant production methods, stemming from the machine-shop where he had worked as a horny-handed mechanic, were driving Chrysler spectacularly into then motor's Big Three...
...under his suspenders. Not for more than a year had his quick laugh been heard in any of the 24 Chrysler plants. His friends feared that Board Chairman Walter Chrysler, burned out at 64 by the gruelling drive from the roundhouse to a paneled office, would never mix in motor's hurly-burly again...
From then on Keller's progress was all up the hill. Shortly after Chrysler left General Motors, "K. T." became executive vice-president of Chevrolet but when Chrysler hired him for Chrysler Corp.'s general manager in 1926 he was glad to chuck his job and go to work for the man he admired most in the motor business. And when Walter Chrysler stepped out of the presidency of his company four years ago he had only one candidate for the job: serious, barrel-chested Dodge President K. T. Keller. For Keller had shown more than production genius...
...also shown two other qualities that the hard-riding U. S. motor industry requires of all its topflight executives: the stamina to hold up under hard work, the singleness of purpose that eventually makes "the plant" the be-all and end-all of their existence...
...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), can see nothing but smooth going ahead...