Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute TV spot announcements that will hit the air waves in the weeks ahead, began working out plans for making six national TV addresses, announced that he would kick off his campaign with a big play for the labor vote: * a Labor Day speech, under the wing of United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther, in Detroit's Cadillac Square...
...supplier of the type of paper that the note was written on, scores of agents started to examine a vast variety of public records. First, they vainly sorted through 75,000 fingerprint cards of people in the area with police records. Then they branched out, pored over voting registrations, auto-license applications, court records. In six weeks' time they picked over more than 2,000,000 different documents...
...ITALIAN AUTO BOOM pushed record first-half '56 production 15% ahead of last year, 30% over '54. Fiat leads the way, finds that its baby "600" is gaining favor even in Volkswagen Germany...
...from political action in cases that directly affect their industry, e.g., for higher tariffs on imported textiles (promised by implication last week in the Democratic platform). But most executives shrink from open support of political parties for fear of offending customers, stockholders or powerful public officials. Shrugs a Republican auto-industry executive: "We sell cars to both Democrats and Republicans−and there are more Democrats than Republicans in this country...
...April 1954, some 2,800 United Auto Workerswalked out of the Kohler Co. in Wisconsin, demanding higher pay and union powers that are more or less Standard throughout industry. In the 28 months since then, the strike has degenerated into the nation's oldest, ugliest major labor dispute, bringing vandalism, bloodshed and violence to the pretty beer-and-bockwurst city of Sheboygan (TIME, April 18, 1955). Unable to budge Kohler from its adamant stand, the U.A.W. is now moving the biggest boycott in U.S. Jiistory against the company. All over the land the U.A.W. is preaching to other unions...