Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Organized labor was fighting a hard and relentless campaign. In an unprecedented formal alliance, the C.I.O., the A.F.L., the United Mine Workers, the Machinists and the Railroad Brotherhoods had got together in a strictly political organization and dubbed it the United Labor League. The auto workers' Walter Reuther had invaded the state to denounce the author of the Taft-Hartley Act. From labor headquarters had rolled thousands upon thousands of pamphlets, posters, books, a lurid comic book (drawn by Al Capp's brother Elliott) attacking and lampooning Taft. A few of the attacks hit home, but some...
...greatest howl of all came not from the producers or buyers but from the Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther. Said he in a letter to NSRBoss Stuart Symington: the new credit restrictions would create "mass unemployment before there is enough defense work and take materials out of civilian production before they are needed in defense production. They are discriminatory, ill-considered and dangerous. They are a grievous blunder . . . The Federal Reserve Board, living in a world of banker mentality and unaware of basic production problems, has . . . made a stab in the dark and the knife is in the backs...
...Locomobile at Chicago's 1908 auto show was a honey. The paint job was white, the cushions and trim were red and the top, supported by wooden bows, was sleek in tailored khaki. The powerful young fellow who had been hanging around the show for four days couldn't keep his eyes off it, but the price was staggering: $5,000. He had only $700, and a wife and two kids back in Iowa to think about, but a bank lent him the money and Walter P. Chrysler, 33, had his first...
...Chrysler said, "I wish you would go to work." He did: for Willys-Overland at $1,000,000 a year. After that, nothing but a car of his own could satisfy him. He had a finished prototype ready by 1923: the first six-cylinder Chrysler. When the New York auto show of 1924 refused to give him display space (the Chrysler was not in production), he hired the lobby of the Hotel Commodore to show off his models. That year he sold 32,000 of them, and in 1925 the Chrysler Corp...
...this case, Byrnes, a concert singer, was so upset by Hastings' threats to blow auto horns during his recital that he hit sour notes and had to leave the stage. Hastings made the threats because he confused the singer with a Communist entertainer named Joseph Burns. But Hastings claims he acted in good faith in behalf of the citizenry...