Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still much on the nation's mind, Big Labor's Walter Reuther and Big Business' Harlow Curtice appeared in a green-carpeted Senate caucus room last week with prescriptions for the ailment. As witnesses before Democrat Estes Kefauver's subcommittee investigating noncompetitive "administered prices," United Auto Workers President Reuther and General Motors President Curtice took predictably opposite stands...
...faster over the past decade than wholesale prices of G.M. cars. Old Social ist Reuther damned the automakers' pricing policies as "greedy" and "irresponsible," called their profits "fantastic," urged creation of a federal fact-finding agency to decide in advance whether price increases, in or out of the auto industry, are "justified." Equally far apart were the Curtice and Reuther economic prescriptions. Curtice urged federal tax cuts "across the board" to jack up spending by business firms and consumers. Reuther called for big wage raises to boost consumer purchasing power...
...broadest extension yet from management of Ohio's Champion Paper & Fibre Co. Plan for 10,000 workers will assure 48 weeks of 40-hour employment (or equivalent pay) this year, far surpassing original 26-week guarantee at 65% of take-home pay won in 1955 by United Auto Workers...
...sunny California, some of the world's sharpest auto salesmen provide a deal of shade. Last week the shadiest of them all was popped into the cooler. Convicted on charges of conspiracy, grand theft and forgery, Auto Dealer Henry J. Caruso-billed as "the greatest" in his radio and TV singing commercials-was packed off to jail for a year, fined $10,000, and enjoined for the next ten years from entering any business in which he would be selling to the public. After Caruso, wary Californians agreed, the public needed a ten-year respite...
Audience Participation. Munich-born Gottfried Neuburger. who majored in international affairs at Columbia University, is no newcomer to the fair business. President and founder of America Abroad Associates, whose directors have staged more than 50 big trade shows, he set up the first postwar International Auto Show and the first International Toy Fair in New York, was U.S. representative to the Zagreb. Yugoslavia fair in 1951. The Russians expect 3,000,000 people from all over Russia and the satellites to attend his month-long U.S. fair...