Word: auto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mathematics requirement for graduation. There are no available facilities for advanced study in English literature. Where 75 per cent of our high schools offer typing courses, only 40 per cent have school newspapers appearing as regularly as once a month--and some of those are mimeographed. Advertising, shorthand, auto shop, and a half-term of empirical economics teaching you how to avoid being gypped when you purchase an automobile--these are the trade and social courses which compose the high school academic gamut...
While the union went on working without a contract, thus losing for good the "no-contract, no-work" threat that it has used against the auto companies before, G.M. stepped up the pressure. It stopped collecting union dues by payroll checkoff, and told union shop stewards that they can spend only half their working hours on union business. Ford and Chrysler, whose contracts expired three days after G.M.'s, followed the G.M. formula for operating in the no-contract period. If there are no contracts by the end of June, automakers may shut down. With a backlog...
...AUTO DEALERS are in the red this year for first time, says National Automobile Dealers Association. Gross profits in first quarter averaged $831 per car, but selling expenses (overhead, salesmen's bonuses, etc.) jumped to $877. Result: average dealer lost...
...costs and hiked production so successfully that he ran way out ahead of his competition. Says he: "What we did was spend a little more money in bad times, and we won 60% of the market where we had only 15% before." To stay competitive in its auto-supply business, Detroit's C. M. Hall Lamp Co. had to cut prices on a lamp bracket below what it considered a rock-bottom $17.76 per 1,000. Solution: it redesigned the bracket in reinforced nylon, sold...
...have enough?" For similar reasons, cameramaker Bell & Howell this year tripled its ad and sales promotion budget to $600,000 for the second quarter as part of President Charles H. Percy's antirecession campaign, while Reynolds Metals is diversifying rapidly into new markets for aluminum swimming pools, auto parts, boats and tin cans. "We had all these programs before," says Vice President John Blomquist of Reynolds Aluminum Sales Co. "But now that business is tough, we're moving a lot faster in these development areas...