Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before they got around to answering that question, the labor leaders had a day of routine business meetings and a chance to tour the nearby golf course, swim in Friendship Lake below the administration building, play tennis and shuffleboard (or, like the auto workers' Walter Reuther, have a fling at square dancing on the shuffleboard court), and view the movie Helen of Troy in Dubinsky's $750,000 lakeside theater. Their every want was tended by Unity House's regular staff of 400, plus 50 extras brought in for the occasion...
Rude Awakening. Whip-smart Walter Reuther, the United Auto Workers' leader whose political prestige was placed on the November line by his effective convention support of a Stevenson-Kefauver ticket, launched into a 20-minute argument for an all-out Democratic endorsement. Labor, said Reuther, must protect its bargaining-table gains in the political arena. "We did not choose the battlefield," he cried. "Our enemies have gone there, and that is where labor must go to protect itself...
...logged between 600,000 and 700,000 miles and pierced the sound barrier, The Netherlands' Queen Juliana returned home from a vacation on Corfu, where she and her husband visited King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece. Once home, Bernhard gave his daughter, Princess Beatrix, her first auto, a Fiat sedan, for passing her high-school final exams. Then, at the horse show in Rotterdam, he saw another daughter, Princess Irene, tie for fourth in the National Junior Championships, and with Juliana watching from the stands, took second place himself in horse training...
...added up the clues: LaMarca's car registration showed that he owned a 1948 Plymouth of the type that youngsters had seen in the vicinity of the Weinberger home on the day of the kidnaping. The kidnaper had left some old auto-seat covers, had instructed the Weinbergers to leave the ransom under them; these covers, the FBI learned, had been manufactured to fit the seats of a 1948 Plymouth. Finally, though not conclusively, the notepaper had been traced to a supplier in the general vicinity...
...AUTO AIR CONDITIONING boom in '57 models is predicted by Detroit motormakers. Ford says its '57 air-conditioning-unit sales may reach 75,000, three times this year's anticipated...