Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...detail, the Los Angeles situation was perhaps rosier than other U.S. industrial areas (Detroit, in fact, was hurting as auto plants got ready to shut down for changeovers to 1958 models). But it underscored an important element of the continuing wage-price rise: a nationwide shortage of labor, from engineers to drive-in dishwashers. Despite automation and efficient new machines, the demand for labor is greater than ever, e.g., to build the plant for expanding industry, to provide added services-haircuts, repairs, domestic help-for a rank and file with more take-home pay. At the same time the pool...
...Room F-41, nine representatives of "100% civil rights or bust" organizations met secretly one morning last week. Among those present: Vice Chairman Joseph Rauh Jr. of Americans for Democratic Action; Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; spokesmen for United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and International Electrical Workers President James Carey. The Hobsonian choice before these good liberals: whether to support a civil rights bill that had been so weakened by the Senate's Democratic leadership that the South was putting up only token opposition (TIME...
...uncle muscled into the garment trucking industry, worked his way (after a stretch in Sing Sing) up into the labor rackets in a queer way. First he ran a few little dress-manufacturing shops. Then he took over a New York local of the foundering United Auto Workers (A.F.L.). With help from Jimmy Hoffa as well as the union's International Secretary-Treasurer Anthony Doria, Dio surrounded himself with mobsters who had grown tired of robbery, bookmaking and drugpushing...
...speeds away from Viridis with a gaggle of his Paris friends. Both the Gornacs thank God-Elisabeth for having been freed of "an evil presence," Pierre for having sufficient humility not to resent having been punched. Then, days later, they learn that Robert has been killed in an auto accident...
...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...