Word: kenosha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Intermediate Year. Production has been cut back a bit by strikes. A five-week walkout at an American Motors Corp. plant in Kenosha, Wis., which was settled last week, cost A.M.C. more than 30,000 cars. Another strike at a Chevrolet plant in Flint, Mich., has reduced General Motors' production by 4,375 cars a week, for nine weeks so far. Ford's new Maverick is selling at the rate of 400,000 a year but is drawing sales from the company's other lines. Ford salesmen believe, however, that this will be the year...
...small car glided out of an American Motors plant in Kenosha, Wis., drove quietly into the night and braked to a stop in a farm field. There, where the air was clear and city noise was absent, the passengers alighted and began loudly slamming the car's doors. After each slam, the men placed stethoscopes against the car body and listened to the lingering vibrations. Half an hour later, everyone climbed back into the car and returned to the plant...
Last week the company was breathing somewhat easier-for the time being. In Milwaukee and Kenosha, Wis., A.M.C.'s 11,000 auto-production workers voted to accept the new two-year contract agreed on a week before by company and U.A.W. negotiators. The terms were tailor-made for the auto maker's shaky fortunes. During the first year, for example, the average A.M.C. worker will get only a 120 wage increase over the $3.40 an hour he now earns. That represents a marked concession by the auto union, which had won a 200-an-hour first-year hike...
...Milwaukee-West Allis greater metropolitan area, with one-and-a-quarter million people, produces farm machinery and tractors, automobile parts and, of course, the beer that has made it famous. South of Milwaukee, in a 50-mile megopolis reaching into Illinois, are the heavy manufacturing centers of Racine and Kenosha--Wisconsin's third and fourth largest cities with close to 100,000 people each...
After nearly two years in reverse, American Motors Corp. last week made a move to get into high gear. Off the company's production lines in Kenosha, Wis., rolled the first Javelin specialty car, a handsome 1968-model entry that will put A.M.C. into the bustling youth market with such fast company as Ford's Mustang, Chevrolet's Camaro, Plymouth's Barracuda, Lincoln Mercury's Cougar and Pontiac's Firebird...