Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living room of his newly purchased "mansion" in Lansing one evening last week Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams played host to a couple of important callers. His guests and good friends: Walter Reuther, president of the politically potent C.I.O. United Auto Workers, and Gus Scholle, president of Michigan's C.I.O. Council. They had gathered to choose a Democrat to send to the U.S. Senate, to replace the late Arthur Vandenberg, a Republican. The union boys wanted one of their own men-an ex-union functionary named George Edwards, who ran in 1949 for mayor of Detroit...
Even the super-efficient U.S. auto industry can hardly beat such efficiency; it orders 40% of all its auto frames from A. O. Smith. The company has made a profession of revolutionizing mass-production techniques. It has become the world's largest maker of steel pipe, also turns out 24 other products ranging from glass-lined vats to landing gear for B-47 jet bombers. In the last ten years, A. 0. Smith's sales have mushroomed from $46.7 million in 1941 to $176.6 million last year, its net has nearly tripled...
...industry. He replaced the frames built of heavy, costly solid iron with light, strong frames made of steel sheets rolled into tubes. His son, Arthur O. (for Oliver) Smith, who gave the company its present name, used the tubular construction to build the industry's first pressed-steel auto frames (for the 1903 Peerless...
...Arthur's son. (and Ted's father), Lloyd Raymond Smith, who brought the company its biggest growth. By 1913, when he took over, the plant had built a tidy business for its hand-assembled auto frames. Smith set his engineers to see if they could devise a machine to do it automatically. It took six years and $8,000,000, but by 1921 the wonderful machine was ready. In 90 minutes it performed the 552 separate operations required for 'a finished frame...
Married. Henry J. Kaiser, 68, steel, auto and shipbuilding tycoon; and Alyce Pencovic Chester, 34, nurse-companion to his first wife until her death a month ago, an officer in Kaiser's Permanente Foundation, which operates ten charity hospitals; both for the second time; in Santa Barbara, Calif...