Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lumbees fanned out and moved across the road. A tall Indian youth walked closer, raised his rifle, calmly drew a bead on the light bulb, and baml-out it went. Suddenly the band galloped toward the huddled Klansmen, yelling old war cries, firing into the dark night and at auto tires. Most of the Klansmen dropped their guns and made for their cars in fright. The Indians kept coming (one proudly wore a traditional feathered headdress marked SOUVENIR OF CHIMNEY ROCK, N.C.), burst upon the public-address system, tore it apart, grabbed the emblazoned Klan banner...
Double Time. In Seattle, Mrs. Dorys Alkire was fined $1 for a parking violation, despite her argument that she had not broken the law by parking her small sports car in a space partly occupied by another sports car because the owner of the first auto had already put the necessary nickel in the meter...
Steelman McDonald had hardly spoken before the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther topped him. The U.A.W. decided Reuther's executive board this week, will patriotically forget all about its plan for a shorter work week in 1958 negotiations. Instead U.A.W. will couple its new demands for wage increases with a novel program of profit-sharing for wage-earners. And just in case this might not bring him a big enough audience, Reuther was ready to propose (but not "demand") that automakers also share their profits-in the form of rebates-with their customers...
Easier moneymen argued that the economy needed a lift. Unemployment was still rising (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), notably in Detroit. Auto sales were sliding, and Detroit last week rolled out 18% fewer cars than in the same week of 1957 (but 57% higher than the previous week in 1958). Automakers slashed first-quarter production schedules by 13% from the total projected a few weeks ago. In the slowdown more than 9% of Detroit's work force was idle. General Motors has laid off about 6,000; Chrysler last week passed out 4,000 pink slips and more were coming...
Extended Test. In Lancaster, N.Y., George G. Morgan, 31, held on a vagrancy charge after driving 8,000 miles in a car taken from a Victoria, Texas auto dealer, protested: "The salesman told me to take her out for a trial spin, but he didn...