Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel strike deadline was only 34 hours away. The steel strike would tie up an industry on which many others are dependent. And the main issue (i.e., higher pay) was the same as that which had already provoked a motor strike and promised strikes in the electric industry, in the telephone system, in a dozen vital spots in the U.S. economy. The outcome here would probably set a pattern in labor trends for the whole reconversion period...
Sirs: Last February I was Chief Motor Machinist Mate of a Coast Guard-manned small Army F boat which carried 116 corpses from Oro Bay, New Guinea to Finschhafen, New Guinea, where a cemetery was being established for the Southwest Pacific Area...
After considerable tinkering, the U.S. auto industry finally got itself out of storage last week. The motor was .still misfiring, but it was running well enough to push production to its highest peak since the General Motors strike started. The industry hopes to turn out about 75,000 cars in January-as many as it had turned out all last year...
...done some overlooking himself. On July 1 he gave the auto industry the go-ahead to make cars. Same day, Ford Motor Co. rolled its first car out of the Rouge plant. A slow trickle of cars, flatirons, vacuum sweepers began. General Motors' Moraine City plant, which had been making 6-29 propellers, pushed out its first refrigerators. WPB was still wondering how much reconversion would be permitted before V-J day when the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Next week, the armed services sent 30,000 telegrams, canceling the bulk of war contracts. For industry, the war was finally...
...cavernous Willow Run plant last week, workmen swarmed around an auto chassis, lifted in the motor, fastened on the wheels and then, finally, bolted on a body. In this handmade fashion, the Frazer, the first car of the new automaking team of Joe Frazer and Henry Kaiser, was turned out. Wider than most cars, and lower, it was Graham-Paige's contribution to the team. In a week, the new Kaiser-Frazer Corp. will turn out its contribution, the Kaiser car, made in the same fashion. Both corporations acquired something even more important, a top production man: Edward...