Word: akron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City jail, Akron, Ohio...
Detroit's current troubles, therefore, have sent tremors through other vital sectors of the U.S. economy. Akron rubber workers, faced with layoffs like those in the auto industry, are accepting extraordinary reductions in their wage contracts, a development seldom known since the Depression. Even 200 Montana miners have lost their jobs because the low-sulfur coal they were digging is no longer needed to power Detroit's auto plants. Textile workers in North Carolina are out of work because demand has ebbed for the carpeting that they make for car interiors. In all, declining auto sales have cost...
They are sometimes black, but more often white; traditionally male, but increasingly female; frequently teenagers, but usually adults. They might be autoworkers from Detroit, or tiremakers from Akron, but could be hamburger jockeys let go by Burger King or Wendy's, or salesmen and clerks laid off by a Chicago plastics company with weakening orders...
Dewey P. Fasnacht Jr. Akron...
...Akron...