Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough provision killed out of the 1957 bill by mutual agreement of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers and the Americans for Democratic Action...
From key industries, the reports last week showed a picture of recovery marching forward, solid and continuing. Items: ¶ Auto output dipped a bit, but still cruised on 7% ahead of 1958. Most of the decline (down to 117,050 units, v. 119,678 the week before) was caused by parts shortages, but production is expected to rise again this week. American Motors, still working a six-day week, kept producing and selling Ramblers apace. ¶ Steel production, though somewhat behind the forecasts, set a 19-month high with 76.9% of rated capacity and 2,178,000 tons' actual...
...AUTO PRICE-TAG LAW, a sense-making statute requiring that list price be posted on all new models, is being sternly policed by FBI, which has arrested several dealers who removed the labels...
After experimenting with accident and health policies for auto-racing drivers, test pilots and United Nations truce teams, the Continental Casualty Co. (assets: $419,761,432) was ready to solve one of the insurance industry's greatest longtime problems: a low-cost hospital-surgical plan for persons 65 and over. With the help of International Business Machines' wonder-working 705 computer, Continental devised a radical new policy procedure that cuts costs sharply and comes close to automating insurance for oldsters...
...days," When his cherished academic curriculum was universal, far fewer talented young men reached college or even bothered to graduate from high school. Instead, they left school early and became the anti-intellectual voters who refuse to support school taxes, and the "practical" parents who steer bright children into auto mechanics...