Word: kenosha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agent Tommy Cauthen sat in his car, fuming. A volunteer for a police lineup, due to meet Cauthen on a rundown street in Kenosha, Wis., was more than an hour late. As Cauthen was about to give up and leave, he spotted another man who fit the general description of the volunteer-young, medium height and black-so the FBI man offered him $5 plus a ride home for standing in the lineup at the Waukesha County Jail, 40 miles and an hour's drive away. Without hesitation, Willie Walls Jr., 21, agreed and jumped into the agent...
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...Three have laid off 85,000 workers, or 12% of their auto-plant labor force; Flint, Mich., a General Motors town, is reeling from a 20% unemployment rate. AMC has hired 2,300 new workers in the past year for its Kenosha, Wis., plants, where all its passenger cars are assembled, boosting employment there to 11,800 and cutting the jobless rate in the town to a mere...
...impact of the strike was widespread. For want of materials, many factories closed or reduced their work hours, including plants owned by Chrysler in Belvidere, Ill., American Motors in Kenosha, Wis., and General Electric in Louisville. Unable to get carcasses, meat-packing plants from Colorado to Illinois shut down, further reducing supplies and setting the scene for additional retail-price hikes. In West Virginia, five coal mines were closed for lack of fuel. Fearful drivers for oil companies refused to take their trucks out, and service stations in many cities closed...
...Chapin Jr., 57, the Yale-educated auto man who has been the company's front-seat driver for five years, "We're not satisfied with that." As if to underscore his determination, AMC this week announced that it will reopen fairly soon a plant in Kenosha, Wis., that has been shut down for nearly two years. It will produce about 200 cars...