Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offensive against the Taft-Hartley Act hit Detroit. John L. Lewis had won one battle with a coal contract which had laid a few detours around the new law (TIME, July 21). Last week the C.I.O.'s lusty, restive United Automobile Workers opened up on the Ford Motor Co. U.A.W. made Ford a test case in a fight to get unions out from under any responsibility for wildcat strikes. U.A.W. wanted a clause in its contract specifically releasing the union from the law's provisions that unions may be held financially responsible in court actions for failures...
Last week from Marseille came news of piracy in the modern manner. From a hidden cove on the southern coast of France, five sea dogs had swooped out in a high-powered motor launch. Armed with submachine guns and dressed as customs men, they boarded an unsuspecting Italian freighter, locked the crew in the hold and sailed away to their pirate lair with 2½ tons of U.S. cigarets- in 20th Century Europe, a treasure as fabulous as Captain Kidd...
...nation's motor truckers are hauling a full cargo of woes...
...Rocking-Chair Set. In Long Beach, Calif., cops were looking for two elderly women who had purred down a sidewalk in their electric motor chair, had run over and fatally injured a 73-year-old lady...
...calm under the harsh Riviera sun. Eighty-two children crowded the small 30-ft. motor launch Annamaria as it pulled out from the little seashore town of Loana. With shrill chatter and singing, the children (aged ten to twelve) set forth with six women guardians and three crewmen for the isle of Gallinaria, six miles away...