Word: autos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best, reports Mr. Berrey, was a magazine's typographical error: "The auto approached the coroner at 70 miles an hour...
...Roland Jay Thomas, provisional president of the U. A. W. wing loyal to John L. Lewis, announced that locals including 268,442 (out of about 380,000) auto unionists have aligned themselves against Homer Martin...
...workers had also laid highspeed roads to Falkenburg, within 95 miles of the Polish Corridor; to Hamburg, in the northwest corner of the Reich; to Saarbrücken on the French frontier; to Munich in the south and Vienna in the southeast. As Herr Hitler was opening the Auto Show, 300,000 workmen were resting in 218 barrack towns for the next day of digging, blasting and concrete-pouring on Autobahnen in every quarter of the Reich, even in East Prussia, on the other side of the Polish Corridor...
Soon learning there was no spot cash up that alley, the young inventor turned to more practical pursuits. To earn money for his first pair of long pants, he invented a thief-proof auto lock which netted him $25. At 19 he was working in a railroad yard. Then he landed a job in the fund-raising office of George Everson, a San Franciscan with brains and friends...
...former electrical engineer who turned auto worker in 1923, Roland Thomas came up out of Chrysler plants where he organized one of U. A. W.'s original locals. His personal popularity will be an asset in the struggle between the factions for rank & file support. But the real bosses of C. I. O.'s union continue to be Messrs. Lewis, Murray & Hillman...