Word: motor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...negotiating goal, the four-day work week has been an occasional element in the United Auto Workers' industrial theology at least since the 1960s. After signing a new three-year contract that should end the three-week strike of 170,000 auto workers at the Ford Motor Co. in a matter of days, U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock proudly announced a sighting of the promised land. The Ford pact, he announced at a Detroit press conference, "goes far beyond" previous contracts. In fact, he said, "we are on the road to a four-day week. The principle is there...
...Fords do pretty much what they want and go pretty much where they choose. Steve Ford, 20, who wants to be a rancher when he graduates from California State Polytechnic University, is touring scenic backwaters of the Far West with his boyhood friend Kevin Kennedy in a 27-ft. motor home, undismayed by the fact that the bears may outnumber the voters in some of these districts. Last week Steve pulled up in front of the Home Cafe in Dupuyer, Mont. (pop. less than 100), and before his order of pancakes had arrived found himself surrounded by ranchers, the local...
...this context, the proposals put forward by the United Automobile Workers in their just-concluded contract negotiations with the Ford Motor Company are an encouraging sign. Under the tentative agreement with Ford, auto workers will receive 13 paid days off per year, in addition to the 33 holiday and vacation days they already receive off. This section of the contract--Ford's opposition to it prompted the 22-day strike against the company on September 14--is a conscious first step for the union in its future plans for the auto industry. The increase in paid days off, union officials...
Dual Drive. The two-wheel buzzers have their disadvantages. On very steep hills, the small motor may need help from foot power (two separate drive chains allow both forms of propulsion to work simultaneously). So as not to obstruct traffic, all states that permit mopeds ban the slow vehicles from freeways and major highways...
...Conservation Act, automotive engineers in the past few years have improved fuel economy by cutting down the weight of cars, designing lean-burning, "stratified-charge" engines and developing electronic ignition systems that fire spark plugs at precisely the right time in the engine cycle. Last week the Ford Motor Co. revealed that it had developed still another way of saving gas. Ford President Lee lacocca announced that within two years, his company will offer six-cylinder vans and light trucks equipped with a device that will automatically shut off fuel to three of the engine's cylinders when...