Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit Labor Days, he blasted the G.O.P. for what he called "ugly patches of poverty and insecurity which still deny dignity, even decency, to the lives of almost one-fifth of all American families." To the Republicans he also assigned blame for reduced farm income and layoffs among Detroit auto workers. "When the Republican Secretary of Defense looks at these facts and says that he never liked kennel dogs anyway, when the Republican Secretary of the Treasury looks at them and then proposes a 5% sales tax, when the President's assistant looks at them and laughs about...
...some 9,000,000 bales annually for the past decade, while consumption of almost everything else has greatly increased. Says Dr. McDonald K. Home Jr., chief economist of the National Cotton Council: "We need very much to invest new money in research, to do some long-range planning. The auto industry gives power steering, while we wear old shirts and look like the devil. We haven't met the test...
...Despite the rise in auto accidents, the home is still more dangerous than the highway, 15 Rhode Island hospitals found. In the six months ending July 31, they had 7,334 admissions as a result of home accidents, more than double the highway figure. Half the victims were under ten. Most dangerous room: the kitchen. ¶ "The physician who sells his testimony to the highest bidder and shades his testimony to the extent that he is paid" should have his license revoked, A.M.A. President Dwight Murray told the American Bar Association. And, he added, so should the lawyer who hired...
...Federal Reserve noted at week's end that retail sales (excluding autos) for first-half 1956 averaged 6% above the same period in 1955, more than offsetting the slump in car sales. Wholesale prices and the cost of living seem certain to edge even higher when 1,250,000 union workers collect automatic raises as a result of June-July advances in the consumer index. After raising price tags a record $8.50 a ton in June, steelmen are already talking up another boost. The -auto industry, setting its sights on a near-record 7,000,000-car year...
Still in the Forest. In Raleigh, N.C., the morning News and Observer and evening Times ran a classified ad: "Shorty: Got plenty of charcoal. Bought six auto radiators. Tubing, sugar credit and transportation arranged for Sept...