Word: standardizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...management offered and the package the union demanded. But this time the steel industry brought to the bargaining table not an offer, but some demands of its own: contract changes to give management more control over conditions in the mills. Most important change demanded by industry: revision of the standard contract's Section 2-B, which deals with the work rules-varying from one mill to another-that govern such matters as the number of men needed for a particular task and the extent of management's authority to shift men around. Charging that the rules now foster...
...such stimulation, Chevy itself may pay a price. Some of autodom's biggest wheels reckon that one out of every five compact sales will come out of the standard models of Chevy, Plymouth or Ford. Atlanta Dealer Paul Timmers echoes what many a savvy salesman says: "The compacts are going to give us our Biggest year in 1960, but they will take away sales from our regular line...
...mechanical changes. From now on, the big emphasis will be on mechanical improvements and innovations. The 80-h.p. Corvair has them aplenty. It gets 25 to 30 miles per gallon, can speed up to 88 m.p.h., and climb an ice-covered grade of 30° that would stop a standard car. Its flat "pancake" aluminum engine, which has six horizontally opposed cylinders (two banks of cylinders in a horizontal position), weighs only...
...longstanding complaints against U.S. car craftsmanship. "One reason that Europeans have achieved a reputation for excellent craftsmanship," says Cole, is that "their cars are relatively simple, but American cars have been getting more and more complicated." Cole has built a car whose six-cylinder engine has fewer parts than standard engines, is easily accessible, can be completely removed from the car in less than 30 minutes. "Everything about it spells simplicity," says Cole. "The engine is handy enough for any do-it-yourself mechanic. Because it is easier to build, I can guarantee you that our quality will stand...
...Thomas Elbert Sunderland, 52, vice president and general counsel of Standard Oil Co. (Ind.), was named president and chief executive officer of the trouble-torn United Fruit Co., succeeding Kenneth H. Redmond, 64, retiring after 42 years with the company. Sunderland, who admits he "knows nothing about bananas," is an expert in the antitrust problems that plague United Fruit; under a 1958 antitrust decree, United Fruit must sell off some of its properties, give up 35% of its import business. A Michigan-born lawyer, Sunderland saw World War II service in the Army Air Forces, became a Standard director...