Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not the American people get jitters from the word "strike," the Automobile Labor Board had good cause to worry over the word. The Board, headed by Dr. Leo Wolman, went to Racine, Wis. to settle a six-week strike of 4,600 men in the Nash Motors and Seaman Body plants. It arranged an agreement on the basis of a 10% wage increase. All seemed settled when, at the last minute, strikers voted down the agreement. Meantime the Board had shuttled back to Detroit where trouble had brewed during its absence. A strike for a general wage increase...
...interim the Mechanics Educational Society (union of automobile tool and die workers) served notice on the entire motor industry that unless its members were granted a 20% wage increase, a 36-hour five-day week, its men would go on strike in six days. Impatiently the American Federation of Labor wired President Roosevelt that Dr. Wolman's Board was wasting time trying to mediate cases of discrimination instead of settling them summarily and proceeding to arrange for collective bargaining committees. Battered from pillar to post, the Board, whose appointment "settled" the strike which threatened three weeks ago to shut...
...President & Mrs. Hutchins, met a few socialites, congratulated his fellow-scientist Dr. Arthur Holly Compton on the latter's appointment, announced from London last week, as next year's visiting professor at Oxford in the chair endowed by the late Cameraman George Eastman. He found time to motor out and visit his old friend Director Otto Struve of the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis. With his early Cornell lectures already composed, the rest of the time he devoted to interviews, informal lectures...
Near Sunbury, Pa. one night three other Army flyers in a disabled bomber dropped flares and went over the side, floating safely earthward as they watched the ship crash and burn. At Cheyenne, Wyo. an Air Corps Reserve pilot who might have bailed out when his motor died chose instead to risk a dead-stick landing, climbed unhurt from his wrecked ship...
...much motor production has already been stimulated by Recovery was plain when figures for the first quarter were released last week. Chrysler had shipped 167,842 cars in the first quarter, against 58,347 for the first quarter last year. With stacks of orders still unfilled, General Motors had produced 316,604 units, nearly 100% more than for the first quarter...