'57 CHEVY BEL AIR

THE LAST YEAR OF ALFRED P. SLOAN (1875.5.23-1966.2.17)

Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (/sloʊn/; May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966) was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a long-time President, chairman and CEO of General Motors Corporation.^[2] Sloan, first as a senior executive and later as the head of the organization, helped GM grow from the 1920s through the 1950s, decades when concepts such as the annual model change, brand architecture, industrial design, automotive design (styling), and planned obsolescence transformed the industry, and when the industry changed lifestyles and the built environment in America and throughout the world.

Sloan's memoir, My Years with General Motors,^[3] written in the 1950s but withheld from publication until an updated version was finally released in 1964,^[4] exemplified Sloan's vision of the professional manager and the carefully engineered corporate structure in which he worked. It is considered one of the seminal texts in the field of modern management education, although the state of the art in management science has grown greatly in the half century since.

Sloan is remembered for being a rational, shrewd, and very successful manager, who led GM to become the world's largest corporation, a position it held for many years after his death. His rationality and shrewdness are also remembered by his critics as extending even to cold,plutocratic detachment or avarice. However, the magnitude of Sloan's philanthropy suggests that he saw himself differently: as a man with greater talents and greater responsibilities than others, who was thus entitled to great authority but also obligated to, and committed to, beneficence.

Sloan and the management of GM in the 1930s and early 1940s – the time of the Great Depression, German re-armament, fascism,appeasement, and World War II – are part of a larger narrative about the complex nature of multinational corporations and how nationality of their members was irrelevant in some ways but relevant in others. The national governments on both sides of the Allied–Axis divide used the industrial capacity of GM – the Allies using Detroit and Vauxhall, the Axis using Adam Opel AG, GM's German subsidiary – to churn out materielfor their war efforts.

Like Henry Ford – a contemporary of Sloan's with a rather special relationship to him as the other "head man" of an automotive colossus – Sloan is remembered today with a complex mixture of admiration for his accomplishments, appreciation for his philanthropic legacy, and unease or reproach about his attitudes during the interwar period and World War II.^[5]

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Alfred P.Sloan, retired as GM chairman on April 2, 1956.

The 1957 Chevrolet is a car which was introduced by Chevrolet in September 1956 for the 1957 model year. It was available in three series models: the upscale Bel Air, the mid-range "two-ten", and the "one-fifty". A two-door station wagon, the Nomad was produced as a Bel Air model. An upscale trim option called the "Delray" was available for two-ten 2-door sedans. It is a popular and sought after classic car. These vehicles are often restored to their original condition and sometimes modified. The car's image has been frequently used in toys, graphics, music, movies and television. The '57 Chevy, as it is often known, is an auto icon.
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The Day Alfred P. Sloan (Business/Industrial Organogram) and Peter Drucker (Marketing Organogram) succeeded in revolutionizing  the modern world with the sleekest design like the ’57 BelAir combined with sleek Marketing

 As a consequence of a 1.5% reduction in costs,   Engineering Standards, Norms and Quality were overshadowed, took a back seat, relegated to second and often killed for  the optical illusion of Marketing.  But not for long, Engineering, Standards, Norms and Quality would strike back, and fatally.  On the morning of 1 June 2009 GM filed for bankruptcy.

1957 FLASH BACK

NO. 82 IN 1957: KEEP ON KNOCKING BY LITTLE  RICHARD

TOP OF THE CHARTS IN 1957

Position	Artist	Song Title
« 195619571958 »
1	Elvis Presley	All Shook Up
2	Pat Boone	Love Letters In The Sand
3	Diamonds	Little Darlin'
4	Tab Hunter	Young Love
5	Jimmy Dorsey	So Rare
6	Pat Boone	Don't Forbid Me
7	Guy Mitchell	Singing The Blues
8	Sonny James	Young Love
9	Elvis Presley	Too Much
10	Perry Como	Round And Round
11	Everly Brothers	Bye Bye Love
12	Debbie Reynolds	Tammy
13	Buddy Knox	Party Doll
14	Elvis Presley	Teddy Bear
15	Harry Belafonte	Banana Boat (Day-O)
16	Elvis Presley	Jailhouse Rock
17	Marty Robbins	A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)
18	Del-Vikings	Come Go With Me
19	Everly Brothers	Wake Up Little Susie
20	Sam Cooke	You Send Me
21	Coasters	Searchin'
22	Chuck Berry	School Day
23	Ferlin Husky	Gone
24	Paul Anka	Diana
25	Ricky Nelson	A Teenager's Romance
26	Tarriers	The Banana Boat Song
27	Jimmie Rodgers	Honeycomb
28	Jerry Lee Lewis	Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
29	Gale Storm	Dark Moon
30	Crickets	That'll Be The Day
31	Charlie Gracie	Butterfly
32	Frankie Laine	Moonlight Gambler
33	Tommy Sands	Teenage Crush
34	Johnny Mathis	It's Not For Me To Say
35	Rays	Silhouettes
36	Andy Williams	Butterfly
37	Terry Gilkyson	Marianne
38	Fats Domino	I'm Walkin'
39	Johnny Mathis	Chances Are
40	Nat King Cole	Send For Me
41	Russ Hamilton	Rainbow
42	Ricky Nelson	Be-bop Baby
43	Larry Williams	Short Fat Fanny
44	Jim Lowe	The Green Door
45	Billy Williams	I'm Gonna Sit Rlght Down And Write Myself A Letter
46	Patti Page	Old Cape Cod
47	Bobbettes	Mr. Lee
48	Fats Domino	Blueberry Hill
49	Del-Vikings	Whispering Bells
50	Fats Domino	Blue Monday
51	Johnny Mathis	Wonderful! Wonderful!
52	Jane Morgan and the Troubadours	Fascination
53	Bobby Helms	My Special Angel
54	Billy Ward and His Dominoes	Star Dust
55	Bill Justis	Raunchy
56	Elvis Presley	Love Me Tender
57	Harry Belafonte	Jamaica Farewell
58	Pat Boone	Why Baby Why
59	Betty Johnson	I Dreamed
60	Buddy Knox	Hula Love
61	Tune Weavers	Happy, Happy Birthday Baby
62	Ivory Joe Hunter	Since I Met You Baby
63	Jim Reeves	Four Walls
64	Jerry Lewis	Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
65	Mantovani	Around the World
66	Tony Bennett	In the Middle of an Island
67	Johnnie and Joe	Over the Mountain Across the Sea
68	Hilltoppers	Marianne
69	Don Rondo	White Silver Sands
70	Four Lads	Who Needs You
71	Ames Brothers	Melodie D'Amour
72	Thurston Harris	Little Bitty Pretty One
73	Steve Lawrence	Party Doll
74	Coasters	Young Blood
75	Victor Young	Around the World
76	Andy Williams	I Like Your Kind of Love
77	Bonnie Guitar	Dark Moon
78	Mickey and Sylvia	Love Is Strange
79	Chuck Berry	Rock and Roll Music
80	Little Richard	Jenny Jenny
81	Pat Boone	Bernardine
82	Little Richard	Keep a Knockin'
83	Sal Mineo	Start Movin'
84	Chuck Willis	C.C. Rider
85	Gene Vincent	Lotta Lovin'
86	Ernie Freeman	Raunchy
87	Fats Domino	Valley of Tears
88	Pat Boone	Remember You're Mine
89	Guy Mitchell	Rock-a-Billy
90	Margie Rayburn	I'm Available
91	Larry Williams	Bony Maronie
92	Harry Belafonte	Mama Look at Bubu
93	Patience and Prudence	Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now
94	Lavern Baker	Jim Dandy
95	Marvin Rainwater	Gonna Find Me a Bluebird
96	Four Coins	Shangri-La
97	Rusty Draper	Freight Train
98	Elvis Presley	Loving You
99	Jimmy Bowen	I'm Sticking with You
100	Joe Bennett and the Sparkletones	Black Slacks