Word: renault
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neat and efficacious an "argument to the man" as ever broke an industrial strike was applied last week to the 20,000 idling employees of the French Renault automotive works...
...Billancourt, just outside Paris, the rows of shops of the Societe Anonyme des Usines Renault had been shut down for nine days. Baggy trousered watchmen, caped gendarmes paraded warily 'about the works. At street corners and at the cafes of the workers' quarter morose workers in felt derbies, flattened peaked caps or black sailor straws, harangued one another. They wanted an immediate raise of 20% in wages. The company was willing to advance only 10%. Impasse. Many a worker regretted the quietude of last May Day, on which in past years workers had demonstrated their discontents...
...Louis Renault?at number 90 of the avenue du Bois-de-Boulogne in Paris and at his chateau de la Batellerie (of the canal boat flotilla) at Herqueville, near Saint-Pierre-du-Vauvray in the department of Eure, both places well known to visiting U. S. industrialists. Gracious Mme. Renault, she who was Mlle. Christiane Boullaire, made her suggestions. Directors of the Societe made theirs...
...shutdown must not endure. It endangered the very existence of the Renault company. Already the shovel-nosed Renault, which glides silently through Paris traffic and howls down the routes nationales, was having stiff competition in the French markets. And U. S. motor cars were intruding in horrible numbers. The first quarter of 1926 the U. S. had exported 82,496 cars and trucks. Many had come to France?...
...signed a contract with promoter Tex Rickard to fight two bouts with whomsoever Rickard should select-one bout this year, one next He agreed to post a "good faith" guarantee of $100,000. His first opponent will be Gene Tunney, pretty onetime marine, George Godfrey, Philadelphia Negro, or Jack Renault, lumberjack-in-the-box. Then, if not defeated, he will face patient Harry Wills. "Will you retire if you beat Wills?" asked a reporter. Said Dempsey: "Not me! I'm going to fight until somebody knocks me from under the gilded kelly . . . Say, I wish I was as fresh...