The Early Years -- The Land from Which Walter Chrysler Sprang -- The Background of the Chrysler Family -- Kansas, the Plains Indians, the Stage Coach, and the Coming of the Railroad -- The Birth of Walter Chrysler; How Financial Corruption Built the Railroads: What Texas Cattle Meant to Kansas -- Ellis, Kansas: The Cradle of Walter Chrysler's Life -- Boyhood in Ellis -- Going to Work at the Union Pacific Roundhouse -- Working on the Railroad -- Getting Married, and the First Big Break -- Putting a Lid on It, and the Go-Ahead Signal -- Trinidad: The First Major Responsibility -- Childress: Springboard to the Future -- Oelwein, Iowa: Superintendent of Motive Power and the First Car -- The First Manufacturing Job: ALCO -- The Automobile and the Assembly Line -- The Early History of the Automobile -- The Development of Mass Production -- Greatness -- Chrysler at Buick -- Chrysler at Willys -- Putting Together the First Chrysler Car -- The Significance of the First Chrysler Car -- Maxwell Becomes the Chrysler Corporation -- Art and Color Take Over the Car Business -- Chrysler Makes it the Big Three -- The Chrysler Building -- 1929: The Crash -- The Great Depression Hits the Automobile Industry -- Streamlining and the Airflow Car -- Labor and the Strike of 1937 -- How He Lived: Summing Up.
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