Word: flints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MIDWEST is neither as gloomy as New England nor as bullish as the South. One-industry towns such as Flint, Mich., where General Motors' Buick division laid off more than half its work force, have helped peak Michigan's unemployment to 415,000, or 14.3% of the labor force, and the highest figure since the war. Lorain, Ohio, where U.S. Steel laid off 3,500 of its 11,000-man National Tube Division, is also in deep recession. Peoria, Ill., where Caterpillar Tractor Co. laid off 6,000 of its 23,000 men, is getting ready to dispense...
...right of free competition; 2) first mediation between management and labor by an American President-in the great anthracite coal strike-to safeguard the public welfare, including the rights of labor. But T.R., conservative, added: "I wish the labor people absolutely to understand that I set my face like flint against violence and lawlessness of any kind on their part, just as much as against arrogant greed by the rich...
...last week Ed Ragsdale surprised everyone. From his Flint, Mich, office he called McCann-Erickson's President Marion Harper, whom he had met only once, and told him to hustle out. As Harper walked into the office, Ragsdale stuck out his hand and said: "Marion, we like your agency best...
Anxious to become a world seaport, Bainbridge, Ga. (pop. 7,562) enjoys two advantages: 1) it straddles the Flint River, 105 miles from the Gulf of Mexico; 2) it is the home town of Georgia's frog-voiced Governor S. (for Samuel) Marvin Griffin. Last week a state senate investigating committee complained that Bainbridge's home-town boy has been doing too much in trying to overcome nature's oversights. The Griffin administration has spent half a million dollars for a 400-ft. pier, a transit shed and sulphur unloading facilities. And along with brother Cheney Griffin...
...most popular man along Madison Avenue last week was a tough-talking executive named Edward T. Ragsdale, general manager of General Motors' Buick Motor Division. From morn till night, he was discussed, watched, wooed with every honeyed promise that resourceful admen could muster. Agencies besieged his Flint, Mich, office with telephone calls, then had their influential friends call, finally got their friends' friends to call. Reason for the furor: tucked away in Ragsdale's pocket was Buick's fat $24 million-a-year account, the industry's third largest automotive account (after Ford and Chevrolet...