Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plant elections. As a result, they have lost some members to a "no union" vote or to the A.F.L. This tussling became a major problem after the C.I.O. in 1949 expelled eleven Communist-dominated unions. Other C.I.O. unions began to scramble for the 800,000 thus cut adrift. United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and President James B. Carey of the International Union of Electrical Workers have been feuding bitterly over 30,000 former members of the expelled United Electrical Workers Union. Last July, the problem was sharply illustrated when three C.I.O. unions, chemical, electrical and oil, battled...
...ambition." FORTUNE itself puts in a plug for the "ornery wife," thinks the "integration" has gone too far. "Conformity," says an editorial on the survey, "is being elevated into something akin to a religion." But there are still companies that will have no part of it. Says one auto executive: "Wives' activities are their own business. What do these companies want for their $10,000? Slavery...
...Kopliner retrieved the cobalt through the blood stains of the thief, but the etchings, along with $11,000 worth of stamps from Brown, and $11,000 worth of Aztec trinkets from Penn, are still missing. The alumnus turned up a year and a half later trapped in a sunken auto...
Robert Amory, Jr. '36, professor of Law, will take over the late Professor E. Merrick Dodd's section in Corporations 1. Dodd died Saturday night in an auto accident...
...other signs pointed upward. Purchasing agents found that the pickup in orders, which started in September, was continuing. Auto sales have recently been running ahead of production, and the industry expects output to fall far behind sales next month. TV and appliance sales are also pulling out of their summer slump. Department-store sales, said the Federal Reserve Board, jumped 10% over the 1950 level in the latest weekly figures, the biggest rise in six months. And the biggest spending of the arms program-and greatest civilian cuts-is yet to come...