Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LABOR. The McClellan committee will continue its investigations, moving from the Teamsters Union to Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers and on to David McDonald's Steelworkers, winding up with a bill designed to halt abuses by labor leaders that is likely to get wide support in Congress...
FORMER COMMUNISTS who are officers of United Auto Workers will not be stripped of union jobs. U.A.W.'s Public Review Board held that five officials who are admitted ex-Reds and five others who took Fifth Amendment before congressional committees must be retained. But card-holding Communists are still barred from office...
...Kudner took on Buick when it was selling fewer than 100,000 cars a year, helped lift it into third place in 1954 (513,497 sales) with breezy, fun-stressing ads and such catchy slogans as "Better Buy Buick," "Hot? It's a Fireball," and the most famous auto slogan of all: "When better cars are built, Buick will build them...
After Lefaucheux was killed three years ago in an auto accident, Dreyfus, his longtime ramrodding chief of production, stepped into his job. He ordered the drive into the U.S. market, pushed output from 900 cars and trucks a day to 1,500 at present. He also steered sales from $409.6 million in 1955 to more than $500 million in 1957, including $130 million in export sales, making Renault the biggest French exporter. Of Renault's $14 million-plus profit in 1956, the state got $6,600,000 in taxes and $2,100,000 in after-tax profits. Another...
...Prospect. In Fuquay-Varina, N.C. E. T. Burchett, auto salesman, explained to police why he chased an armed bandit who had just robbed a bank of $12,000: "I wanted to sell him a car and I knew he had some money...