Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DETROIT--The United Auto Workers Union struck and shut down General Motors' widespread auto manufacturing empire in the United States Thursday...
General Motors and Chrysler were pleased that Reuther had settled so modestly; they hope to settle on about the same terms. Washington was relieved: the contract promised to bring three yeaRs of auto labor peace at a price that Washington thought would add little to inflationary pressure. Ford's wage bill per worker will go up about 4% annually, which could be balanced by industry's gains in productivity, thus should not greatly alter auto prices...
...hard-hit auto industry, how many auto workers will be rehired depends partly on how well the 1959 models sell. Automakers are moving into volume production much more cautiously than in past years, employing far fewer workers. Ford says that it will roll into full production with 106,000 workers, down from last year's 140,000. While General Motors was mum on its payroll, the United Auto Workers estimated that G.M. will swing into full production of the '59s with 300,000 to 325,000 hourly rated workers v. an average of 392,000 in the last...
Road Risk Insurance. Policies paying up to $5,000 for auto death or injury went on sale in 30 vending machines in Indiana motels, gas stations, garages and on the Indiana Toll Road. Secured Insurance Co. of Indianapolis expects soon to install machines in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan. Price of seven-day policy...
...foremost dermatologist," listens to the symptoms of a new patient, Felix Treevly. Six pages later the calm is shattered by a verbal and physical violence, and the book careens off on a hounds-and-hares chase that dooms Patient Treevly and involves the pragmatic Dr. Eichner in an auto crash, murder, and the machinations of a monstrous private eye named Martin Frost...