Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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December 1945 some $200 million had gone into G.M.'s inventories, which had swollen out of all proportion to production. Easy-to-get parts had piled up while G.M. waited for hard-to-get parts with which to make cars. Another $242 million had gone to reconvert and expand...
The biggest trouble was that G.M.'s costs were racing along while production was in low gear. The strike had cut G.M.'s sales for the first quarter of 1946 to $74 million (v. 1940-41 sales of $500 million per quarter). And after the strike was settled...
In Detroit's cosmopolitan Petoskey section, hoodlums last week systematically scarred the windows of 41 kosher butcher shops with acid. Apparently well-organized, the vandals carried specially insulated buckets, drove cars with license plates covered. Police had no clue as to their identity.
Last week, after A-C had again broken off negotiations, Local 248's President Robert Buse (a crony of many an avowed Communist in Wisconsin) tried a desperate maneuver. Violating a court injunction, he threw about 800 pickets in massed formation in front of some of the plant'...
See? In Boston, Patrolman John Flaherty told children to look out for cars, crossed the street, got hit by a bus.