Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most critical economic problem facing the U.S. is the failure to achieve the necessary economic growth," declares the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Economic Policy Committee, chaired by United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther. Necessary for what? For "improved living standards" and "defense and military requirements" and "the social needs of an ever enlarging population." The Administration's stress on price stability, charges the statement, is a "surefire prescription for stagnation...
...shaped, multilevel exhibition hall, glassed in and covered with an accordion-pleated aluminum roof. Between the two buildings, the U.S. plastics industry will construct an all-plastic pavilion made of 70 interlocked plastic sections shaped like hexagonal umbrellas. Separate from both will be a display of 21 U.S. auto models, a pool for U.S.-made boats, and a Circarama similar to the 360° movie screen that proved a hit at the Brussels World's Fair...
...heart-stabbing enough for Los Angeles Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella, paralyzed 13 months ago by auto-accident injuries, that his 15-year-old son David was declared a juvenile delinquent by Children's Court in Jamaica, L.I., for fighting in a furtive gang rumble. But worse followed. Released in the custody of his mother, David was driven to Flushing precinct headquarters, where police accused him of breaking into a drugstore with a white friend, stealing $9 and some cigarettes. When David confessed, Roy was crushed. "I tried to help as much as I could with juvenile delinquency, and here...
...Auto output up to 128,319 cars. 6% above the week before...
...same lines by Hoffa. Admitting that his contracts are so favorable to the unions as to be piratical to the owners, they nevertheless grant, "When Jimmy Hoffa says something, you know he means it. If he says his boys won't strike, they won't. Look at the auto unions if you don't think this means anything...