Word: matic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...union : the largest wage and fringe-benefit package in its history (45. 6? an hour over the three-year period - ? an hour the first year, 9.1? the next two (prestrike average: $2.47 hourly). Auto matic cost-of-living adjustments, a 52-week, supplementary insurance plan for laid-off workers with two years' service, adding up to the best "guaranteed annual wage" in industry. Premium pay for Sun day work...
...Pontiac lengthened its bodies (2.4 in.), boosted horsepower from 200 to 227, has a new Hydra-Matic shift that lessens the "bump" between gears...
...vibration-free mountings that sharply cut their noise. Evinrude has a new tilt-compensator that keeps the engine from bouncing against the back of the boat when the power is cut suddenly. Scott-Atwater has equipped all its engines, from 5 h.p. to 30 h.p., with its Bail-a-matic device, which bails the boat automatically as long as the engine is running...
...flag on the races, canceling all that had not been contracted for. Curt LeMay had long since sold his Cad-Allard and was driving in a more sedate sports car of his own building-an old Indianapolis frame, a sleek plastic body, a souped-up Cadillac engine with Hydra Matic transmission...
...this country a man with the competitive spirit and . . . the physical resources to establish America as an important figure in the racing world. It could have been done in no other way. Detroit, having spent 20 years meeting the public's demand for soggy sponge springing, mush-o-matic drive and steering, and cumbersome chrome bathtub exteriors, is disinclined to risk the reputations of its unwieldy boulevard barges in competition (cheers to Lincoln and similar exceptions...