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Lordstown: Man vs. machine -- and GM was the big loser

During the early 1970s, the UAW local in Lordstown and GM battled regularly over working conditions. UAW workers picket in 1974. (WALTER P. REUTHER LIBRARY, WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY)
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By:
Harry Stoffer
September 14, 2008 05:00 AM
A look at Lordstown

Opened: 1966

Production since then: 14 million cars and trucks

Initial products: Chevrolet Caprice, Impala, Bel Air

Today's products: Chevrolet Cobalt; Pontiac G5 and Pursuit (for Canada)

In the mid-1960s, General Motors executives envisioned that their huge new assembly plant taking shape on farm fields in northeastern Ohio would make history.

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