Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This cheerful sign could not account for the shakiness of stock prices unless July's rate of production already anticipated fall business. Last week General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Chrysler's K. T. Keller (see p. 54) told business something closely approaching this. Said Sloan: "Automobile sales will be fully as good as last year." Said Keller: "The immediate prospect seems to be that business will continue at current levels, or possibly show some improvement " A generous estimate of "some improvement" might put the Federal Reserve index at a fall peak of between...
Last week the first of the 1940 models had their previews. First to be shown were new Packards, priced $120 to $400 under '39 models. Next day Hudson showed its new line, including a low-priced six, a new, more powerful eight. Nash and Willys-Overland followed. Chrysler will show its new cars next week. Ford, General Motors and Studebaker all expected to show their new lines well before the New York show...
...Recognition in eleven other plants is subject to the outcome of employe elections, which G. M. has petitioned NLRB to hold. If NLRB in the G. M. elections follows a precedent laid down last week for employe voting in Chrysler and Briggs (bodies), Homer Martin's union may yet get a foothold. For, instead of holding the elections on a company-wide basis, as C. I. O. asked, the Labor Board called for voting plant-by-plant. General Motors, Chrysler and others thus would have to deal with C. I. O. in some shops...
...caught and passed Ford, had suffered four full weeks from an ingenious new C. I. O. strike technique. On July 5, when C. I. O. began striking eleven key plants where 1940 models' jigs, dies and tools are built, General Motors had a week's start on Chrysler, which had been set back two weeks by another C. I. O. strike. Now General Motors was a week behind Chrysler, which planned to open its Plymouth plant August...
...Suitable for parts and bodies of automobiles, airplane fuselages, refrigerators. (Ford and Chrysler are looking it over; General Electric is experimenting...