Word: nash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another '42 automobile line-Nash-was publicly introduced last week and the trade also got a peek at some others...
...Nash (15 models) underlined the trend to longer and lower bodies, thicker grilles and bumpers, more brightwork than ever...
General Motors 361,815 29.2 Chrysler 188,849 31.4 Ford 151,845 16.9 Majors 702,509 27.6 Studebaker 35,289 23.5 Hudson 25,874 38.2 Nash 21,972 4.9* Packard 23,056 10.3 Willys-Overland 7,768 7.1 Crosley 333 80.0* Independents 114,292 20.2 All companies...
Spark plug of this achievement was Universal's pudgy, tireless Works Manager William A. Ruhl (who used to make Nash automobiles). When Universal contracted to manufacture Johnson parts last year, Bill Ruhl lacked tools and materials, had no priority status whatsoever to help get them. By airplane, train, telephone he ransacked the already overburdened machine-tool market, just as many another tool-hungry competitor was doing...
...General Motors rose 50% over 1940 to a record $699,898,000, taxes almost tripled (to $93,208,000), thus held profits to $53,-580,000, 15% above 1940. Truck maker White Motor Co. had a similar experience: first-half sales rose 71%, profits 6%. But price-cutting Nash-Kelvinator, its June quarter sales up almost 75%, lifted profits from $902,000 to $2,607,000-best in over a decade...