Word: auto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noteworthy thing about Indianapolis' 22nd annual 500-mile auto race last week was not the closest finish on record, not the new track record (104,863 m.p.h.) set by Bill Cummings, but the failure of Death to make its appearance...
...decides in favor of Cummings, he will get $35,000 in cash prizes and 600 points toward the U. S. auto-racing championship which is awarded each year by the American Automobile Association to the driver who compiles the best record in official races. Race drivers who compete in short dirt track races not sanctioned by the A. A. A. may earn as much as $4,000 a year. Drivers good enough to get regular backing in such important races as those at Indianapolis, Oakland, Detroit and Syracuse, may earn up to $15,000 a year in prizes. Winning...
Toledo, The Electric Auto-Lite Co. makes electrical equipment for many a big motor manufacturer. Last February the United Automotive Workers Federal
Labor Union demanded a closed shop and a 20% wage increase. Auto-Lite agreed to a 5% wage increase and negotiation of other questions. Six weeks ago, with nothing more settled, the union struck. To outsiders it looked as if the union had picked Auto-Lite to open its drive to capture the whole motor industry. The company continued operating, hired other workmen. Wrathful strikers picketed in vain. Charging many cases of violence, the company got an injunction restraining the union from posting more than 25 pickets at its gates. Even so. workers had to fight their...
...through the sky while you slumbered.-President Merlin Hall Aylesworth of National Broadcasting Co.¶ In 1949 the world's 20 largest corporations got together on a life-term installment program for goods and services. They offered each subscriber complete equipment for living-food, clothing, a home, an auto, a plane, television, and a world travel ticket good on all trains and boats-all for a flat monthly payment. In 1953 they threw in a life and disability insurance policy. In 1959 they added medical service complete. ... At the end of 1969, an agreement was reached whereby the asylums...