Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michigan last week, Governor William Milliken was suggesting a more pointed alternative to President Ford's WIN button campaign. His version: BAC, for "Buy a Car." In a juxtaposition of imperatives that verged on contradiction, some Chrysler dealers were distributing bumper stickers proclaiming: WHIP INFLATION NOW. BUY A CAR. Top auto industry executives were pitching in with efforts of their own. Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend declared "a new car is the best buy you can get in America today." Outgoing General Motors Chairman Richard Gerstenberg, in a signed newspaper advertisement, once again made clear that what was good...
Really Sloppy. The hardest hit is Chrysler. With a third-quarter loss of $8 million and early November sales down 41% from a year ago, the third largest automaker will shut down all but one of its six U.S. car-assembly plants for more than five weeks, from the day before Thanksgiving until Jan. 6. Only its plant in St. Louis will produce cars. The move, which came as no surprise in view of Chrysler's 120-day inventory of unsold cars, means layoffs and bleak Christmases for 64,200 workers. White-collar workers also face the ax; fully...
Honey Fritz's move should start a widespread political trend, that grows to include all those other presidential contenders whose solution to impending nuclear war or Chrysler's laying off 100,000 workers is a plea for renewed trust in the American system. Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), the would-be Democratic front-runner, could set an example in this movement much finer than he has in the last few years, with ceaseless calls for shoring up the "defense" system, not to mention the Saigon government. And President Ford, Jackson's Republican counterpart, could help achieve his expressed desire...
James Johnson was the son of a Mississippi sharecropper who came north to Michigan to look for work in one of the big factories. He looked for two years, and finally landed a job at Chrysler's Eldon Avenue Gear and Axle Plant, where three thousand people work every day. He was assigned to the No. 2 oven...
...Movement--did. Johnson saw all this, and joined it to his own experience: the injuries, the conditions, the bullying foremen who called him "nigger" and "boy." In May he hurt himself in a car accident and his doctor told him to stay home and recover, but in a week Chrysler told him to return to work or be fired. He went back, but soon Chrysler sent him a letter saying he was fired anyway. It turned out to be a bureaucratic error, so Johnson kept working...