Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daily yield of crude oil (80,000 barrels) as great as that of its boom days in the 'gos and an output of motor oil sufficient to supply 35% of America's cars, 90% of American aircraft, 75% of streamlined trains, a substantial portion of the marine and industrial lubricants market and 20% of foreign motor oil exports - if this rate of production indicates exhaustion, your dictionary or mine needs revision...
France, inquiring for 20,000 trucks, placed a $3,500,000 order for 2,000 with Yellow Truck & Coach. Studebaker landed another French truck order, White Motor Co. another. Goodrich had orders for 645,000 feet of A. R. P. fire hose from Britain, Hewitt Rubber for 1,300,000 feet...
...between Labor and the motormakers since C. I. O. moved into the industry two years ago. The issue: whether autoworkers or their bosses shall decide how fast production lines move, i.e., how many cars and parts are produced in a given time. Speedy, timed, mass production is what makes motor cars cheap and plentiful in the U. S. So the battle in Detroit was of as much interest to automobile buyers as to the motormakers, their 380,000 workers, and the furnishers of steel, rubber, plate glass, etc., etc., who pine or prosper with their biggest consumer...
...union Ford Motor Co., still resisting an NLRB order to cease opposition to C. I. O., reinstated 23 discharged unionists, as the Board had ordered-but said it was obeying the law of increasing production rather than the Wagner Act. Recovered from the factional strife which nearly destroyed the union last year, C. I. O.'s U. A. W. was in fettle for a drag-out fight with Chrysler. After that, great G. M. also might be called on to let its workers slowdown by agreement, or see them slowdown by conspiracy on the assembly line...
...Maiden, Mass., Donald W. Lovett pummeled a motor vehicle inspector who stopped him and asked to see his driving license. Explained Driver Lovett to the court: "He didn't say please...