Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charges and 2) a never-ending series of wage boosts gained by John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers. Since World War II ended, the mineworkers have won wage and welfare increases totaling $9.32 a day. Their average daily wage of $19.67 is the highest in big U.S. industry (auto and steel workers get $16.80). Even on a short week, their take-home pay stacks up well...
...Borrowed Capital. The co-op members complained that they had to pay auto-insurance rates as high as those of city drivers, although they diri most of their driving on safer country roads. So, with $10,000 borrowed from the federation and pledges from members for 1,000 policies, Lincoln started a mutual auto-insurance company as a private enterprise. It was a success from the start, and later began selling policies to city people, too. It now operates in 13 states and the District of Columbia, ranks fourth among all U.S. auto insurers, second among mutuals. As chief lure...
...Secluded Suburbia. Although Lincoln resigned from the Farm Bureau co-op after the war, he did not stop expanding. He added a radio broadcasting company, an auto loan company, a mutual investment fund. He got into housing in 1947, when he started Peoples Development Co. to build 34 homes in housing-short Bellevue, Ohio at the request of the National Machinery Cooperative. To finance home loans at Lincoln Village, he started Peoples Mortgage...
...Rochester, N.Y., the enterprising Lake Shore Drive-In theater urged auto-less customers to come out by bus, promised: "When you get here, we'll place you in one of our 50 cars parked inside the drive-in theater...
Encore. In Kansas City, Kans., released from Leavenworth Penitentiary after serving a three-year term for auto theft, Edward H. Diller spotted a shiny yellow convertible, drove it off, 48 hours later was arrested and sentenced to a year and a day at Leavenworth, for auto theft...