Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unity. That's what I'm making all this noise about. I want labor unity." But he gave notice that, at the C.I.O.'s December convention in Los Angeles, he will demand Reuther's resignation as president either of the C.I.O. or of the United Auto Workers, his basic source of strength. Reuther is not likely to give up either job peacefully. Despite last week's second-act sag, Dramatist McDonald seemed set on staging a crashing climax...
...purpose is to find out by experiment how the brain behaves when deprived of fresh and varying stimulation from the senses. The problem is a practical one. Men watching radar screens on which nothing changes for hours often fail to see a strange blip when one appears. Many auto drivers are "hypnotized" into crackups by long hours behind the wheel on monotonous highways...
Even such a high calibre film as On the Waterfront goes overboard when swearing, drowning the tag end of the line, "what the he..." in the blast of an auto horn. Afterwards, when "Go to hell" was not only said but repeated (the priest, to whom it was said, evidently could no more credit his hearing than could the audience) there was the same embarrassed reaction as to Rhett Butler's line. Since stevedores and gangsters had managed without any naughty words during the rest of the picture, when they came it was with surprise...
...talking shop, found that their ideas about France and about automobiles were remarkably similar. This week the meeting of their minds gave France a new industrial giant. French Ford stockholders voted to merge their company with Simca, making the new company second in size only to the nationalized Renault auto works. Pigozzi only 30 years ago was an obscure scrapiron exporter, became head of a company that Reith calls "comparable to General Motors in the French auto industry...
Hottest Thing in France. Italian-born Motorman Pigozzi, 56, has had a supercharged rise in the French auto business. He left the scrap business in 1926 to become the French distributor of Italy's Fiat cars. When he ran into import and tariff troubles, he took over a small assembly plant in France. In 1934, after assembling 32,000 Fiats, he bought out a bankrupt auto factory near Paris for $300,000 and organized Simca (Sociéte Industrielle de Mécanique et Carrosserie Automobile). Gradually he loosened his ties with Fiat, and today Simca, while it still...