Word: automen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hiring would be feasible in such cases. The auto industry has dragged in every available trained worker to keep up with the sales race, and Detroit companies have even gone to South Bend to recruit laid-off Studebaker workers. But there is no time to train green hands; automen need production right...
Next to total sales, automen care most about their share of the market, since a change of only one percentage point can mean a difference of $45 million in earnings. General Motors, surprisingly plagued by production problems in gearing up its intermediate-sized cars, slid from a 54.4% share in the first eight months of this year to 53.5% in the middle third of October...
...ensure that they are baked at the right temperature, then automatically test their quality, setting up electronic protests if it has been disobeyed. A General Electric computer is scheduling the timing of each stage in the construction of a 34-story Manhattan apartment house, and in Detroit computers tell automen how to make their cars ride more smoothly by calculating the strain requirements of springs and shock absorbers...
...lingering doubt about the value of this stimulus disappeared last week, as Detroit added up sales figures for the first quarter. The industry is now selling cars at an annual rate of 7,500,000-a bit above the alltime high set in 1955, the year that automen still speak of in awed tones. The basic reason for the car-buying surge is that the U.S. consumer, who loves a bargain, is getting a lot of car for his money. Even discounting Detroit's usual enthusiasm, the '63 models are better than those of any previous year...
What irritates Japanese automen is that Toyo Kogyo owes its success to a tiny and unconventional vehicle: a three-wheeled truck that is easy to operate over Japan's narrow roads, easy to park on its crowded streets, and so simple to drive that only a motorcycle operator's license is needed...