Word: nash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...automakers had set themselves. And there was every chance that shortages of materials and strikes would shut down the industry completely. Except for a steel strike, the most immediate threat of a shutdown was the seven-week strike in the glass industry. The creeping glass shortage had already closed Nash, was slowing down Willys' production of civilian jeeps, was holding Ford down (Ford makes some of its own glass). If this strike were not settled soon, Hudson and Studebaker might be forced to close in four weeks. Even if the General Motors strike ends, G.M. could be shut down...
...Price ceilings on other makes-Packard, Hudson, Nash, Willys, Crosley and the new Fraser-Kaiser are still to come...
...Twosome. In the race to reconvert, short, balding Nash Russ, president of Taylorcraft Aviation Corp., had delivered his first civilian plane just two weeks after V-J day. Taylorcraft's Alliance, Ohio plant is now turning out 15 a day of its single model, the Twosome ($2,295), hopes to boost production to 50 a day by year's end. By then, Mr. Russ also hopes to be in production of a new model, a four-place, 127-m.p.h. plane. Price...
...days later, the Senate Commerce Committee turned thumbs down on the President's nomination of Raymond S. McKeough. onetime New Dealing Congressman and defeated Senate candidate (1942) of Illinois' Kelly-Nash machine, to be a member of the U.S. Maritime Commission. If the Senate followed through, it would be the first rejection of a Truman appointee...
...Powerful Field. Last week, General Motors let out that it too is thinking about a new car, lighter, cheaper than Chevrolet. It plans to build a plant in Cleveland to produce it, possibly set up a new organization to market it. Nash Motors is also reportedly planning a new model with a wheelbase of only 86 inches (present Ford wheelbase: 114 inches). Willys-Overland also has a new small car up its sleeve. But no one was doing much talking-yet. Cracked one motorman with heavy irony: "We're not as far along as Kaiser and Frazer...