Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Giant Ford Motor Co., first manufacturer to get postwar cars rolling off the lines in any quantity, suddenly closed down. Sporadic strikes against Ford suppliers had crippled production, Ford said. The worst strike was at Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., where 4,500 workers had been out for three weeks in defiance of their own union leaders. In retaliation, Ford shut virtually all its plants, locked out 50,000 workers...
Even the Ford Motor Co., which shut down its plants and laid off 50,000 workers rather than struggle with wildcat strikes, could see a silver lining. It had reconverted so fast and made so many cars that it might soon have had to set a price to get them off its hands. If it had, it would have laid itself wide-open to undercutting by all the other automakers. Now it could keep its plants closed while the rest caught up. It was a strategy which might appeal to the entire auto industry. If pressed hard enough, might...
...sacred shrines. Academic, humanistic Weimar prided itself on representing the exact opposite of German militarism. But to young Hauser, Weimar's "phony cultural activities" were the epitome of decadence. When World War I broke out, he and his school friends were deliriously happy at the thought of "action, motor cars and planes, dynamic life...
...schedule: A Team Oct. 6 Tufts Oct. 13 Univ. of Rochester Oct. 20 U.S. Submarine Base Oct. 27 U.S. Coast Guard Academy Nov. 3 Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center Nov. 10 Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy Nov. 17 Brown at Providence Nov. 24 Boston University B Team Oct. 6 Andover at Andover Oct. 13 Exeter at Exeter Oct. 20 Tufts B Team at Medford Oct. 27 Worcester Academy Nov. 2 Open Nov. 10 Mass. Maritime Academy...
Detroit was typical. There, 4,500 struck at Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., forcing the Ford Motor Co. to send 30,000 home and shut down temporarily. A strike of 500 at Hudson Motor Car Co. threw another 6,000 out of work. All across the nation, strikes mushroomed faster than the War Labor Board could keep track of them, much less track down the reasons for all of them...