Word: auto
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Although his governorship was not at stake, "Soapy" Williams had campaigned on a 4:30 a.m.-to-midnight schedule, had shrewdly hit hardest in heavily Democratic Wayne County (including Detroit), where the United Auto Workers Union had cranked up a get-out-the-vote drive. In Wayne County a record 470,000 voters turned out, helped pick Democrats for superintendent of public instruction and three seats on the Supreme Court. So powerful was the governor's imprimatur that it even engineered a victory for 36-year-old Genesee County Surveyor John C. Mackie, whose qualifications to become state highway...
Sugar & Arrows. By that time, some Aurorans were voicing a lusty opinion of Egan's stewardship. They stuffed sugar into the gas tank of his auto, burned him in effigy, shot flaming arrows into his six-room house. The arrows, some said, came from Indians. "Many people are mad at the mayor," explained one man. "I do not see why the Indians should be excluded...
Last week it was also plain that spring had belatedly arrived for the auto industry-though not quite the sort of spring that was hoped for. Ward's Reports said that auto sales in the last ten days of March ran 13.5% over the previous ten days and boosted March sales over the half-million mark for the first time since June. Sales performances of individual lines were impressive: Buick sales were up 32% in the last ten days, Ford up 15%, Oldsmobile up 10%. March sales of lagging General Motors were the best since last fall...
...United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther's recent declaration of his intention to seek a four day, higher paid work week for his union's members in next year's bargaining can only injure the already precarious public reputation of organized labor...
STEEL PRICES will go up again at midyear, when steelworkers get their annual raise under three-year contract. Estimates are for boost of $5 to $6 a ton; increase will be less if production stays low (currently 92% of capacity), more if auto-buying picks up sharply later in spring...