Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strike! Strike!" Labor discontent in the auto industry was erupting in sloppy, bloody, sporadic strikes. Reuther set out in 1936 to organize West Side Detroit for the struggling automobile workers union...
...York Post: The agreement between the Ford Motor Co. and the Auto Workers Union is a landmark of industrial democracy in the U.S. According to the ancient Marxist cliches, the union's demand should have precipitated a long and violent class struggle. Walter Reuther was advancing a proposition that would have been generally considered revolutionary two decades ago. There will be diehards who call young Mr. Ford a "traitor to his class." But in the history books he will be remembered for a contribution to the social engineering of this century as momentous as the mechanical wizardry...
...halfway mark he was first. When the checkered flag dropped, Sweikert was still in the lead, having averaged a respectable 128.2 m.p.h. This year, at the cost of two lives (Manuel Ayulo, 33, was killed in a practice-run crash), the Indianapolis 500 had proved little except that auto racing is a fascinating and relentless sport...
While the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther and his United Auto Workers battled for a guaranteed annual wage (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), another giant of U.S. labor came up to bat. In Pittsburgh this week, David McDonald, boss of the C.I.O.'s 1,200,000-man steelworkers union, sat down to start contract negotiations with the steel industry. McDonald did not ask for a guaranteed wage, thus observing the letter of his contract, which permits negotiations this year on wages only. Reportedly, the steelworkers will demand a straight hourly pay boost; the industry may counter with...
...plug their wares in the nation's newspapers, U.S. businessmen spent $594 million in 1954, 1.2% below 1953's peak of $601 million, but still the second-best year on record. As usual, the American Newspaper Publishers Association reported this week, the auto industry (which accounts for 24% of the ads) spent most with a 7.9% increase to a record $139 million, while food dipped 2.8% to come in second with $129 million. The biggest single U.S. advertiser for the eighth straight year: General Motors, whose ad outlay jumped 13.5% to an alltime high of $37.3 million...