Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will business be next year? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week took a look ahead, found the prospect pleasing. The "alltime high" boom of 1955 would keep running ahead. Despite 1955's record output of more than 7,000,000 cars, the Chamber expected that '56 auto sales would be almost as high. Construction, consistently on the upgrade every year since World War II, would increase again...
Studebaker abandoned the bullet-nosed, sports-car look designed by Raymond Loewy, in favor of a car that more closely resembles those of the Big Three. President James Nance thinks that an independent auto cannot compete by radical design, must be built to look like other cars. Packard offers minor changes in grille, hood and chrome, and a pushbutton transmission control mounted on the steering post...
...industry had given the C.I.O. steelworkers' union (TIME, Aug. 22). But from the A.F.L. local came a startling reaction. Through Business Agent John Gerard, the union flatly rejected G.A.W., said that it was clearly unnecessary in their industry, where there is no seasonal layoff comparable to that in auto plants...
...some 35 million car owners carry $4 billion in auto-insurance policies to protect themselves against damage claims. Last week it seemed that some owners needed protection against the policies as well...
Months ago the Texas Board of Insurance Commissioners discovered that six auto-insurance firms were overcharging Texas policyholders by misclassifying them in the highest possible premium bracket...