Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hate-Autos Year." If prices are part of Detroit's trouble, they are far from all of it. For a nation on wheels, the plight of the auto industry is a matter of intense popular concern. Many a U.S. male prizes his auto above all other possessions-sometimes even his wife. Since there are 80 million drivers, there are 80 million experts on cars-and naturally, on the industry that produces them. Thus Detroit has become the center of a vast family argument. Everyone has something to say about the 1958 cars. Some of the charges are right...
...argues the merits of the U.S. car v. the invading import. There are gags for every occasion. At the sight of a new 1958, the sidewalk humorists are solemnly asking, "Where do you put in the nickel to make it light up and play?" To Detroit, all this is as shocking as if a Saint Bernard had bitten a lost missionary. "This," said Ford Stylist George W. Walker sadly, "is 'Hate-Autos Year...
...Detroit isn't solving our problems-it's creating them," says San Francisco Social Worker Janet Pence, who recently retired her 1951 Hudson in favor of a pale blue Volkswagen. "When it became difficult to park downtown, we were greeted each year with a longer car. When the price of gas and oil went skyhigh, we were asked to buy gas guzzlers. Well, we plan to become a two-car family soon, just as Detroit advises. But we're getting another Volkswagen...
...production up another 6% to put it 26% ahead of 1957. American's first-quarter sales were the greatest in its history (31,260 cars), and, after years of red ink, it reported a handsome $2,380,895 profit. Yet Romney's gain puts little cake in Detroit's lunch basket. Some 84% of the industry's 807,000 workers are Big Three employees, and an estimated 450,000 are laid off; millions more workers in thousands of supplier plants spread across the entire U.S. economy are dependent upon the major auto companies...
...into line. But when the industry formed a united front and showed no signs of giving in, Reuther was forced to modify his position. Last week, in a "four-part antirecession campaign," he offered to extend the current contract for another three months while differences were worked out. Detroit's answer: a flat no. Said G.M.'s Curtice with a snort: "A transparent maneuver to stall negotiations until the 1959 model changeover...