Word: tex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hampton's 3,000-acre farm near Decatur, Tex. last week, a three-year-old Black Angus became the most valuable bull in the world. To Owners Hampton and Urban Simon. Rancher Jack Danciger of Fort Worth handed a check for a one-third interest in Prince 105 SAF. Price of Danciger's one-third interest...
...busy as the factories were, auto salesmen were even busier. Helped by the discounting dealers (TIME, Jan. 24), sales were climbing. Said Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert: "We are selling cars faster than we can make them...
Chrysler this week also unveiled two new lines-the Imperial and New Yorker Chryslers, both with h.p. upped to 250. To promote the new models, Chrysler President L. L. ("Tex") Colbert kicked off the biggest ad campaign in company history. But with all the shouting, it was still grimly apparent that Chrysler has a tough fight ahead. In the third quarter, Chrysler last week announced a loss of $12 million, its first loss since 1950 and one that cut nine months' earnings to $3,724,383, v. $55,676,548 in 1953. So far this year, Chrysler sales have...
...maneuver cars with less chrome and plenty of interior height so nobody mashed his hat. The result: Chrysler sales plummeted nearly 50% as the great U.S. car buyer turned to the longest, slinkiest cars he could find. Last week, taking no chances on 1955, Chrysler President Lester L. ("Tex") Colbert showed newsmen a 1955 line that is as long and low as anything on the road. The company, said Colbert, spent $250 million on the greatest design change in company history...
Second row: Egon R. Bodtker of Portland, Ore, and Weld North; E. F. Bowditch, Jr. of Cambridge, Mass. and Wigglesworth; Merom Brachman of Forth Worth, Tex, and Thayer North; David M. Busse of Wilmington, Del. and Straus South; Howard E. Chase of Maplewood, N.J. and Weld South; Richard T. Cooper of Geneva, Ill. and Holworthy Middle; E. Lawrence Currey of Omaha, Neb. and Wigglesworth; Richard W. Daly of Wellesley, Mass. and Matthews South...