Word: akron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depend on basic industries declined. As sales of U.S.-made autos tumbled 16.7% in the last six months, largely because of infuriating gasoline lines and inflating gasoline prices, recession and high unemployment struck Detroit, Flint and other carmaking capitals. Also hurt were the industry's supplier cities: rubbermaking Akron, glassmaking Toledo, steelmaking Youngstown. Layoffs in the auto industry mounted to 116,000 workers (out of a total 765,400), and in steel to 45,000 (out of 466,859). Unemployment also ran higher than the national average in the metropolitan areas that live off heavier industries and old lines...
More immediately, large segments of the nation would suffer from the decline in driving and in demand for cars. The old manufacturing centers of the Midwest and East-steelmaking Pittsburgh and Youngstown, tiremaking Akron, glassmaking Toledo, many others-rise or decline along with the fortunes of autos. St. Louis, Kansas City, Wilmington, Del., and dozens more cities are automaking centers. In the Far West (where public transit is grossly inadequate) and the Plains states (where communities are separated by long distances), people must drive or suffer immobility. Of course, they can and must do more car pooling. That is difficult...
CLEVELAND LEADS THE NATION? An unlikely claim in the best of times. Today it may be harder to point out any areas of distinction. Cleveland's rock culture is overshadowed even in Ohio by Devo and the other New Wave spuds sprouting in Akron, while readers of Fortune will note Cleveland's fall from third to fourth among corporate headquarters for major U.S. industrials. The businessmen may be inclined to blame the latter on Mayor Dennis Kucinich...
...populism, not just to catch more of the mayor's antics. The press delights in portraying Kucinich as a sort of political punk-rocker: he's rude, he's vicious, he's noisy, he's politically outspoken, and he looks barely old enough to be the beau of Akron's hardnosed heart-throb, 16-year-old Rachel Sweet...
...over the Chicago suburb of Palatine. Another American 707 sheds the 11-in. by 13-ft. tip of a wing flap over San Francisco Bay. And federal investigators report that basic pilot errors committed by Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson caused his Cessna Citation I jet to crash at Akron-Canton airport on Aug. 2, killing Munson and injuring two passengers...