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Word: automen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plymouth has an average of only three cars a dealer, Oldsmobile 3.5, and Buick 3. Instead of waiting for Big Three models, many customers are buying from Nash, Studebaker and Hudson, whose sales are up as much as 47%. Even used-car dealers have begun to feel the change. Automen do not expect the sellers' market to ease up. They expect to produce 4,500,000 cars in 1952. Estimated demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Sellers' Market Again | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...first two months of 1951, automakers turned out 986,000 cars, v. 876,000 in 1950 (when the Chrysler strike cut production). Thus the steel cut-and the reductions in copper, aluminum, zinc and other metals-would still permit the industry to turn out plenty of cars. Automen and Government officials alike thought that the auto industry this year could make almost as many cars as it did in 1949, when 5,119,466 cars reached the market. Even the gloomiest of prophets placed output in 1951 at no fewer than 4,300,000 cars, more than 1948^ output...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROLS: Gloomy Gus to the Contrary | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...some of the trimmings will be eliminated-and prices higher. Automen think that they will be permitted to thaw their frozen prices about 5% when Price Stabilizer Mike DiSalle brings out his new "profit margin" formula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROLS: Gloomy Gus to the Contrary | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...Angry automen accepted the Government's mandatory freeze; they had no other choice. G.M. loudly damned the order as "discriminatory . . . ill-considered," if not actually illegal. Said G.M.: "We doubt that this arbitrary action complies with the letter or intent of the price and wage stabilization act." If auto prices were frozen, asked the automen, what about the price of raw materials? And what about wage contracts, which in the auto industry are directly tied to the rising cost of living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Stalled Autos | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

While the debate went on, automen were open in charging that they had been double-crossed by Washington. After G.M. and Ford had raised their prices-and Valentine had requested them to rescind the increases-the automen had trekked to Washington with charts and figures to show that labor costs had risen 11% and that materials had jumped anywhere from 7% in steel to 300% in natural rubber this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Stalled Autos | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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