Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That practice may now be ended. The NLRB has just won a highly significant victory against the United Rubber Workers of America's Local 12, which speaks for all workers at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in East Gadsden, Ala. In 1960, Goodyear laid off eight Negroes who had more seniority than white workers who kept their jobs. The union, which agreed to separate seniority lists for each race, refused to help its Negro members. Even the union's international president, George Burdon, could not dissuade Local 12. Though federal negotiators got the Negroes reinstated...
GENERAL MOTORS: About 2,400 '66 Suburban trucks in which a seat-belt bolt may cut into a tire; 4,900-plus '67 Pontiacs that may have defective stoplight wiring and turn-signal circuits; '66-'67 series-442 Oldsmobiles with possible brake defects; about 1,600 Chevrolet '67 trucks, with possible wearing of the brake hose against a wheel...
...certainly lucky to be alive. Three times in the last three years, Arfons has driven his jet-powered Green Monster to a new world's land speed record on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats - and each time he has narrowly escaped death when a rear tire exploded and the car went out of control. Last week Arfons was at Bonneville to regain the record he lost last year when Craig Breedlove clocked 600 m.p.h. in his own jet car, Spirit of America. Art was confident that he had licked Green Monster's handling problems by adding...
...which had recently acquired a 20% interest in the company, that it would stand by the present management. That beat off the challenge of the takeover-minded dissidents, at least for the time being. At the same time, small but glowing Seven Arts Production Ltd., headed by ex-Tire Executive Eliot Hyman, announced that it would purchase 1,600,000 shares of Warner Bros., giving it one-third of the stock and control of the company. Seven Arts will pay $32 million for the shares to Jack Warner, last active brother of the four who founded the studio 43 years...
Russell DeYoung, Chairman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber...