Word: ac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to close down its entire operation employing 11,000 unless the steel strike ends within three weeks. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. last week laid off 521 workers at two Midwestern plants, will drop 1,200 more by the end of the month. At General Motors Corp.'s AC Spark Plug Division plant in Flint, Mich, and Harrison Radiator Division in Lockport, N.Y., 900 employees were put on a four-instead of a regular five-day week to conserve steel for use by divisions with less inventory. Some companies with big inventories were in trouble; they were running...
Like M.I.T.'s Robinson, he is also ac quainted with business. So far this year, he has turned out three other covers on some of the exciting aspects of the American boom: the story of General Electric's Ralph Cordiner and the atomic energy industry, the telephone-man cover on A.T. & T., and the rise of American Motors' George Romney and the compact car. The result of the team work between Gart and Jamieson, and the story of the financial world's fastest-growing phenomenon, you can read in the BUSINESS cover story on The Prudent...
MISSILE COMPETITION for Air Force Titan's inertial-guidance systems was won by G.M.'s AC Spark Plug Division over American Bosch Arma Corp. Contract's worth: about $300 million in next few years...
Last week Ed Ragsdale announced his retirement. G.M. handed his job to Edward Dumas Rollert, 47, boss of its Harrison Radiator Division at Lockport, N.Y. Like Ragsdale, Engineer Rollert moved up via manufacturing instead of sales. He joined G.M. out of Purdue ('33), rose in the AC Spark Plug Division as metallurgist, chief tool-and-die designer, assistant works manager. During the Korean war he managed the Kansas City, Kans., Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac plant, made his mark by converting it into G.M.'s first dual-purpose plant, turning out cars and F-84F Thunderstreak jet fighters...
...Britain's Austin-Healey Sprite, a junior edition of the popular Austin-Healey 100 sports car. It has seats for two, a convertible top, and a price tag suited to college-boy billfolds: $1,795. Another entry: the handsome AC Aceca hardtop coupé that seats two with plenty of luggage space, goes 106 m.p.h., and costs around...