Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beyond the squalid skulduggery of any individual labor leader is the question of labor's role in a nation confronted by creeping inflation. United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, aware of a growing resentment, tried to pass the blame to management-and had it tossed right back (see below). Indeed, there was justification for the idea that labor's basic appetites are inflationary. Said the New York Times this week: "There is a built-in 'political' need for the labor union leader to win a wage increase every year, if at all possible...
Honored at Jamestown, Tenn. (pop. 2,115) by his old 82nd Division (long since an airborne outfit), old (69), ailing Sergeant Alvin York whispered his thanks for a new auto equipped to carry his wheelchair (he was crippled by a stroke in 1954). Then, exhausted, Medal-of-Honorman York beckoned to friends and was wheeled from the speaker's platform while the oratory rumbled on, returned by ambulance to his home in nearby Pall Mall...
...immoderate wage demands by big labor add up to a big factor in inflation (TIME, Aug. 5). But the fact remained that he had astutely framed his argument in the terms of inflation and thereby caught a public ear that would likewise be tuned to the answers of the auto companies...
...AUTO EXPORTS are down owing to mounting gasoline prices, stiffer competition from foreign automakers and higher taxes placed by some countries on heavier cars. In first half of 1957 U.S. exported only 88,214 new cars, a reduction of 29% from...
...about building it. Where did he get the money? "Oh," said the little priest airily, "our good Lord helps me." This was not quite the whole truth, the crestfallen parishioners of Giadinh learned last week. Rounded up in a Saigon police court along with four other members of an auto-stealing gang, one Roberto Borsetti explained that Father Jacques had financed the new parish school by selling stolen cars. The cars, 17 in all, were snatched by Borsetti's crooks at night, driven into a palm-thatched workshop in the churchyard, repainted and turned over, complete with forged license...