Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instead of just taking orders." The reason is that Connecticut Valley manufacturers are stocked up with enough steel to last them up to six months; even when the strike came, no rush for steel developed. Texas oilmen have no trouble finding all the pipe they want; Detroit's auto industry is so well stocked that steel sheets are selling at discounts, and expensive "conversion" steel (i.e., metal produced at one plant and converted into shapes at another) has disappeared...
...Odessa, Grace Marie Olliff, 20, lay critically ill after an auto crash in which her skull, pelvis and left leg were broken. Doctors said that she must have blood transfusions to save her life. The patient said she was not a Jehovah's Witness, would accept the blood. But her father William, 51, pushed into her room and shouted: "You're trying to kill my girl." Flanked by his two sons, he stood guard at the door to prevent a transfusion...
...Jackson, 75 miles west of Detroit, exploded. Almost 200 of the prison's toughest convicts went wild in a disciplinary isolation block. Holding four guards as hostages, they wrecked their cell block, smashing everything in sight. Then, led by a robber named "Crazy" Jack Hyatt and an auto thief named Earl Ward, the rioting cons forced their way into other sections of the prison. They captured six more guards, swelled their forces to more than 2,500 with other released prisoners, some from hospital wards for the mentally dangerous...
...France, no one who likes to eat and sleep well would think of setting out on an auto trip without a fat little red book in his pocket. The book: the Guide Michelin, maker and breaker of restaurant reputations all over France and one of the smartest promotion stunts ever dreamed...
...guidebook was started at the turn of the century by Edouard and André Michelin, the bearded brothers who invented the first removable bicycle tire and are credited with the introduction of the pneumatic auto tire. With the advent of the horseless carriage, André Michelin figured that a reliable guidebook would give both tourism and the tire business a boost. He was right. Today the Michelin Tire Co., still family-owned, is one of the biggest in the world. Worth some $57 million, it has plants in France, Italy, Britain, Belgium, Spain and Argentina. Michelin loses about...