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...General Motors' Fisher Body plants were shut down, and some 7,000 workers walked out of a Pontiac assembly plant the same day that Pontiac's 1959 models were put on view. Said G.M. Vice President and Top Negotiator Louis G. Seaton: "The hit-run guerrilla warfare has the obvious goal of crippling 1959 automobile production." Nevertheless, the companies refused to budge from a firm no to union demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Building Up the Pressure | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...Pontiac will be longer, lower, will sprout tail fins. Headlights will be more widely spaced; the scooped-out rear fenders will now be convex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The New Cars | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...Ford 961,236 1,655,068 1,468,734 1,451,157 Plymouth 399,236 662,824 526,852 672,130 Oldsmobile 296,369 384,392 485,459 583,181 Buick 241,908 405,086 572,024 738,814 Pontiac 217,282 334,041 405,730 554,090 Rambler 162,182 84,699 66,573 81,237 Dodge 138,166 281,359 233,686 273,286 Mercury 128,270 286,163 327,943 329,808 Cadillac 121,083 146,840 154,631 140,778 Edsel 60,754 Chrysler 60,601 115,858 120,721 147,605 De Soto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AUTO PRODUCTION | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...Joseph's Mercy Hospital at Pontiac, Mich., a receptionist glanced up one night last week to see "a zombie" stagger hunched and stiff-legged through the main door. The man wore shoes, socks, and a checked cotton bathrobe; his body was charred, his eyes swollen, his mouth puffy. "Can you get me to the emergency room?" he groaned. As doctors gave him blood and plasma but no hope, the man insisted he was "John Doe from Washington," would say no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Torch Without Song | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...personal representatives). Eventually, Kierdorf gave his own explanation of his burns. He was home alone in Flint, he said, when two workmen appeared, invited him to a secret organizing meeting. At their plea for haste, he tossed bathrobe over T shirt and trousers, climbed into their old Packard. Outside Pontiac, 40 miles away, his hosts stuck a gun at his neck, doused him with fluid and lit a match. Then they dumped him at the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Torch Without Song | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

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