Word: flints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sitdown Strike. In 1937 much of Flint was sprayed by tear gas as the U.A.W. staged its first major sitdown strike, against G.M. Today most people agree that the U.A.W. raised Flint's level of prosperity by getting its members a bigger share of G.M.'s increasing income, just as G.M. managers raised the level by continuing to increase the income...
...dispute umpire system (in 1940), first to hitch wages to the cost-of-living index, first to link wage increases to productivity. Last year G.M. lost an average (nationwide) of only three minutes in labor troubles for each wage earner. Today's happier version of the sitdown in Flint occurs when local U.A.W. leaders, G.M. brass and civic bigwigs sit down at a luncheon meeting to plot the Community Chest campaign...
...Flint's current No. 1 campaign is culture. The city is building housing projects, new churches, school buildings and a huge $5,000,000 civic center. In addition the Flint Junior College is expanding to become the nucleus of the new Flint campus of the University of Michigan, which will open next September. One of its main structures: the Harlow H. Curtice Academic Building. Flint's adult education program has an enrollment of 40,000 people, who study everything from classical languages to the fine art of tying trout flies. The Flint Community Music Association comprises 42 independent...
This Town & Flint. Give or take a few dollars and a few square dancers, Flint could represent-qualitatively-almost any industrial city in the land. It could be Arlington, Texas, which jumped in population from 7,000 to 35,000 in five years, as new plants moved into the area between Dallas and Fort Worth, drawing most of their new employees from agricultural areas. It could be Los Angeles, which added as many factory workers in the past five years (277,400) as in the previous 21. Or even New England, which put its brains to work and found...
...Flint from London, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Mexico City and the other cities of the non-Communist world? Not far, in the sense that a prosperous, strong U.S. economic system is clearly the basis for the record-breaking prosperity of the whole free world...