Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Where's that Wide Wide World?" cried members of the Detroit contingent. "Where's Dave Garroway? He told us he was going to be here." Television's Garroway did not show, but NBC's Martin Agronsky was there, stage managing United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther on to the footprints marked for him in chalk pn the platform, marshaling a crowd behind Reuther, while a producer with a megaphone exhorted everyone to wave the freshly printed PUT AMERICA BACK TO WORK signs for the camera...
...seeking the ultimate in economy, Britain's York Noble Industries Ltd. had a new, fiber-glass-bodied Nobel 200, a tiny (672 lbs.), gas-saving (85 miles per gal.) bubble of a car that seats a family of four and goes as fast as 63 m.p.h. Lowest-priced auto at the show, the Nobel will sell for $998 complete, or $895 in a do-it-yourself, semi-knocked-down kit assembled in 100 man hours...
...beaten down last year's dues revolt in his own union (TIME, Sept. 29), and need not act tough to impress his membership. Nor does he have to bring home a whole ham to keep pace with the wage gains won by other unions. The United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther settled for a modest increase that poses no threat to steel's position as one of the best-paying big businesses. Steelworker gross earnings averaged $2.88 an hour last year, 35? better than autoworkers and 75? better than the average for all manufacturing; among production workers...
...Auto-Trip Insurance. To give motorists trip insurance as convenient as airline flight insurance, Charlotte, N.C. Businessmen Walter Shapiro and Morris Speizman thought up Insuratrip, Inc. Motorists seeing an Insuratrip sign at gas stations dial a designated local agent's telephone number, buy coverage at the rate of 25? per $2,500 per day, up to $25,000, deposit coins in a coin box placed close to the telephone. The policy itself is mailed to the insured's beneficiary by the agent. In operation only since December, Insuratrip now does business in four eastern states, has applied...
...arrested the three freshmen, was at the cemetery on another assignment when he claims to have found the students drinking beer around their parked car. En route to the Wakefield police headquarters, the trio, which was following McKeon in their car, reportedly tried to throw two typewriters from the auto...