Word: worked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
Packard styling appears unchanged from last year except for narrower radiators with rounded edges and more chrome grille work. Four lines (two of them brand new) are priced $20 to $100 lower this year at $867 to $6,283. The new 160 & 180 (eight cylinders, 160 h.p.) replace the Super Eight and Twelve. Shop talk: big gains in power-to-weight ratio...
...Hillman Jr.'s Pittsburgh Steel Co. were defying the rule of producing with 85% of capacity and rotating 15% under repair, were actually smelting ingots at better than 100% of nominal capacity. Bethlehem's battery of 30 old and new furnaces at Buffalo is now working at 100% for the first time in Bethlehem's history. Steel's (mostly Big Steel's) last reserve of obsolescent capacity in Chicago and Pittsburgh waited to limp into action. When these furnaces are blown in to work once every five or ten years, steelmen prepare for overproduction...
Most copper men, glad that they had had their innings, were content to give their customers a chance to work off the loads bought in July and September. Not so Phelps Dodge's Louis Gates, whose customers left him high and dry last spring (TIME, May 22) when he refused to follow his competitors' price cut to 10?. Last week poker-playing Gates showed that he believes in flexible prices-on the up side. He posted a price of 12½?, panicked consumers to come back into the market for more inventory. Reluctantly Kennecott and Anaconda, both with...