Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affront to law-abiding drivers. ¶In Rochester, motorists who put tin foil or steel marbles in their hubcaps in an unsuccessful effort to foul the detectors were charged with attempting to obstruct justice as well as with speeding.† ¶ In Manchester, Conn., the Chamber of Commerce and auto dealers protested bitterly to the chief of police because he was enforcing speed laws entirely by radar, and wary drivers were detouring around the town, taking their business with them...
Studebacker is running against the trend of 1954 auto prices. With both Chrysler and Nash cutting prices on some new models and Hudson staying at this year's level, Studebaker this week upped prices by as much as $105 on its de luxe models...
...take the gambles American producers accept as a matter of course. The constantly changing demands of U.S. consumers can only be met by investment in new products and more efficient production methods that will lower prices. Foreign producers willing to meet such terms prosper, tariffs or no. British auto producers, for example, have shrewdly pushed sales of sport cars, something Americans wanted but did not have; last year they sold 31,243 cars in the U.S., far more than any other foreign country. The big lesson producers abroad must learn is that the main cause for failure to sell...
Instead of building engines the old expensive way by sending men off to stockrooms for each part, Wright now puts everything on conveyor belts to move engine parts to the workers, as in the auto industry. The line, said Hurley, who learned his business as a top Ford production executive in Detroit, takes up 42% less space than the old way, cranks out engines twice as fast at two-thirds the cost...
...figuring his company's economic health. With the new assembly line and better tools, each of the 20,000 workers at Curtiss-Wright's Wood-Ridge plant will turn out $14,000 worth of engines a year. Says Hurley, "That's just about what the auto companies like General Motors get from their men. It means we're in the big leagues...