Word: autos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eugene Houdry was the fils in Houdry & Fils, Parisian steelmakers. His hobby was auto racing. One day a racing driver excitedly showed him a bottle of gasoline which he said a pharmacist in Nice had derived from lignite ("brown coal"). France, which has lignite but little petroleum, was then in the throes of an oil-shortage scare, and 29-year-old Eugene Houdry caught the driver's excitement...
...Year ago Colonel Ayres misgauged the slump in auto production by a full...
...requested Chrysler Corp. to penalize four of 60 Plymouth body handlers who sat down for higher wages. Temporarily out were 21,900 others who could not work when the flow of auto bodies halted. In Washington John Lewis grabbed a long-distance telephone and bawled out Executive Boardman Leo Lamotte, whom Mr. Lewis blamed for the trouble. Boss Lewis was concerned because he had just had C. I. O. avow that it would religiously observe its contracts...
Nash-Kelvinator Corp. fired 300 sit downers who struck for $1 instead of 91 ½? an hour, paralyzed interlocking Nash auto plants which employ 3,500 at Kenosha and Milwaukee...
Sunset pays almost no attention to such overexploited aspects of Western life as Hollywood, pension plans and college football, but goes in big for new kinds of auto trailers, mountain cabins, patios. It never touches on controversial matters like politics or labor trouble. It plugs the "how-to-do-it" angle, with simple diagrams showing how to design anything from a homespun lampshade to a barbecue oven. Its unvarying, chirpy cheerfulness grates on Eastern nerves, but is fully justified by results to date. Profits for 1938 will be approximately $25,000 as compared with a loss of $71,822 during...