Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successor, Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley, did not inherit his father's flamboyant sense of salesmanship. Quiet and methodical, he likes to fiddle with machinery and motor boats, keep out of the limelight. But in the dark days of February 1933 he astounded conservative businessmen by upping Wrigley wages 25%. And he was the first to put the Blue Eagle on his gum packages. Last week Gummaker Wrigley again made news by announcing a $1,000,000 employes' "assurance" plan. "In talking with workers in our factories," said he, "I discovered that their chief worry...
...third day brought the showdown. The motor makers were satisfied with the compromise arranged but the A. F. of L. leaders held out, particularly Organizer Collins who, rather than pompous President Green, was the backbone of Labor's push. When the A. F. of L. men went to the White House for a final conference General Johnson said: "This is the worst situation I have ever encountered. This is the end; now it's yes or no." At 7:30 p. m. the Laborites left the White House with an agreement reached...
...which had demanded a union election in hope of getting control of automobile labor, had to be content with a bargaining foothold. The motor manufacturers won their fight to keep the A. F. of L. from setting up a closed shop in the industry. President Roosevelt himself described the terms under which the strike was averted...
...addition, the motor makers got a specific promise in answer to their complaint that the A. F. of L. had coerced their workers to join its union: "The Government makes it clear that it favors no particular union. . . . The Government's only duty is to secure absolute and uninfluenced freedom of choice without coercion, restraint or intimidation from any source...
Five minutes behind schedule, a trimotored Pan American-Grace plane roared down the field, bounced aloft last week in Lima, Peru, southbound for Santiago. Chile with nine passengers and a crew of three.* About 150 ft. up the port motor cut out. The centre motor sputtered. With flying speed almost gone, the pilot tried to turn back. The big airliner shuddered, dived into the ground. On board was Manuel Trucco, leathery Chilean Ambassador to the U. S., on his way from Washington to Santiago where his wife had died. Ambassador Trucco suffered a broken pelvis. His pretty daughter Grace...