Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before the British elections 100 American newspapers were offered an article by Clement Attlee outlining his socialist policies. Five papers-the New York Herald Tribune, the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Cleveland Plain Dealer the Toronto Star, and the Chicago Sun-bought and printed it; the other 95 turned it down. Explanation by some who rejected the article: it was a little outside the main trend of events...
...Powerful Field. Last week, General Motors let out that it too is thinking about a new car, lighter, cheaper than Chevrolet. It plans to build a plant in Cleveland to produce it, possibly set up a new organization to market it. Nash Motors is also reportedly planning a new model with a wheelbase of only 86 inches (present Ford wheelbase: 114 inches). Willys-Overland also has a new small car up its sleeve. But no one was doing much talking-yet. Cracked one motorman with heavy irony: "We're not as far along as Kaiser and Frazer...
...Cleveland, police arrested Alfred Johnson, a paroled auto thief, who was speeding to an appointment with his parole officer in an auto he had stolen for the purpose...
...redeployment movement was another example of U.S. speed and organization. In France and Italy were many centers where G.I.s are assembled, processed, filtered out to the embarkation camps. Ancient Reims is the hub of an assembly area made up of 18 tent cities named Boston, Brooklyn, Cleveland, New York, San Antonio, St. Louis, Carlisle,†etc. The general idea in redeployment camps: keep morale high with plenty of recreation, shows, liberal leaves, a taste of home in advance. Thus "Boston" has "Tremont Theater." At "Brooklyn" is a home plate from Ebbets Field, a bag of Coney Island sand...
...said he has discovered that the Army permitted corporations to make "exorbitant profits" out of Government contracts (he cited as examples Manufacturers Jack & Heintz of Cleveland who, in one year, showed earnings of 1.740% on capital stock; High Standards Manufacturing Co., which, "with a capital and surplus of $65,660 showed a net profit after taxes and after depreciation in 1942 of $1,888,918," plus $1,500,000 for a "management...