Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walter Reutker, 48, vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., president of its United Auto Workers, another 1952 Stevenson backer. Reuther has taken no official stand this year, is presumed still to like Adlai. But his anti-moderate attitude on civil rights sounds more and more like Harriman. Says Reuther: "Citizen Walter Reuther will not support the Democratic Party nationally if that party attempts to be all things to all men on civil rights...
George Francis Patrick Flaherty was riding his Irish luck. Rolling out for the Indianapolis 500-mile Memorial Day auto race, he wore a jaunty shamrock on his helmet, and he didn't give a tinker's dam for the auto racers' superstition that green is the devil's own color on the track. With his John Zink Special, almost an exact copy of last year's winner, 30-year-old Pat Flaherty had already spun through his trial heats fast enough to set a one-lap record: 146.056 m.p.h. In the big test itself, freckle...
...while holding their managers virtual prisoners. Last week the last of hundreds of U.S. businessmen, who once did a $1 billion business in China, was safely in Hong Kong with a tale of seven years of subtle commercial torture. His name: Charles S. Miner, 49, manager of a big auto, newspaper, real-estate and insurance business in China for Manhattan's C. V.Starr and Co. His company's losses totaled nearly $5,000,000 before the Reds were satisfied. Said Miner: "Our companies were wrung dry like dishrags until we had lost everything...
...censorship throttled the Evening Post so effectively that it was soon forced to shut down, sell its equipment at junk prices. The auto agencies next went under. But despite heavy taxes, Starr's insurance business prospered, and the land company, Metropolitan Land Co., was allowed to manage its properties...
...company is still having trouble with its auto business. Willys' domestic sales slumped 18% during 1956's first quarter. However, export sales jumped 29%, and Edgar Kaiser thinks the future of the auto company lies abroad. Kaiser's new Willys plant in Argentina started producing last month, and he is negotiating for a complete manufacturing operation in Brazil, has already licensed assembly plants in Turkey and Israel...