Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face it," said Wilhelm Vorwig, general manager of the German Auto mobile Manufacturers' Association, "our present achievements are based on the copying of the American economy...
...Turbine Auto. General Motors Corp. has built a four-passenger successor to its experimental gas-turbine car, the Firebird. The Firebird II's engine, said President Harlow Curtice, "gives promise of being able to operate with substantially the same economy as present-day automotive piston engines." Instead of wasting the tremendous blast of heat that comes out of the back of the engine, the Firebird recaptures about 80% of it by means of a heat exchanger, uses it to raise the temperature of intake air and thus improve combustion. G.M. does not plan to produce the titanium-bodied Firebird...
...labor authority. "Anyone who goes out on a labor story and doesn't fall flat on his face," says Lahey deprecatingly, "becomes, quote a labor expert, unquote." Nevertheless, Expert Lahey combined human interest and fair-minded interpretation to such good effect in covering the 1937 steel and auto sitdown strikes that he was assigned to top labor stories throughout the U.S., became a close friend of union leaders...
Meanwhile, he takes pride in such signs of success as the recent elections at the big Someca auto-parts plants where two of his missionaries worked for a year: for the first time the Communist C.G.T. lost to the Christian Workers Union...
...Yager of Albany, N.Y., who testified that he had been bullied by G.M. and would show only "a small profit during 1955," actually made $81.898 in salary, bonus and net profit during the year's first ten months, even though he spent only half his time in the auto business. On an original investment of $10,000 (half of it borrowed), Yager made more than $1 in 15 years...