Word: worked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade," Keller says today and many a Chrysler man has seen him prove it. So far as Walter Chrysler was concerned, he had proved he was much more than a good lathe-hand as far back as 1916 when President Chrysler of Buick (who had seen Keller's work in the General Motors shops) hired him as Buick's master mechanic...
...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...
...eleven years K. T. Keller has had only three vacations (fishing). He has cut out figure skating, at which he once excelled, because it took too much time. A rounding paunch has been the penalty, more time for work the reward. He plays golf abominably ("I get quite a thrill if I break 100"), avoids bridge for more than a tenth of a cent "because it gets too serious and I don't have the time to devote to the game...
...basement shop. Said his father, with the characteristic wrinkled grin that makes his eyes disappear: "A good mechanic's job-and I didn't help him." His other son, Robert, 27, is a Chrysler research engineer. No seeker for a college degree, he went to work for Chrysler after high school. "I gave him a four-year college course in the shop," says his father today, "and I think now that he's a damned fine mechanic...