Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is hardly a tourist attraction that is not mobbed. Two weeks ago, 16,800 toured the Ford Motor Co.'s 1,200-acre Rouge manufacturing complex in Dearborn, Mich.; attendance there was up 36% over last year. San Francisco's cable cars are jammed, and waits for rides can take 20 minutes. Near Los Angeles, a one-hour wait to tour Universal Studios is not uncommon, and the Sheraton-Universal Hotel is filled to capacity. Visitors to Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania face a two-hour wait on weekends for one of the 77 guides...
...Dearborn, Mich...
Arab Americans have long been among the nation's least visible and vocal minorities. Al Amen, an Arab community activist in Dearborn, Mich., says he could not get a job at a local community college because, in the words of a college official: "You're not black, you're not white, and you don't speak Spanish." He complains that Arab Americans, contemptuously called "camel jockeys," are never given time off for Islamic holidays. Arab Americans are relatively small in number-between 1 million and 1.5 million -and they are dispersed in the nation and split...
Henry Ford Community College Dearborn, Mich...
...current small daily volume and could shrink rapidly if the pace picks up. Ford, with a 50% third-quarter profit decline and an early November sales dropoff of 36%, is also reducing its work force; layoffs could reach 54,000, including at least 3,000 white-collar staffers in Dearborn. GM's layoffs now total 53,000, and last week the company said that it would close nine plants for part of December, idling 30,000. Reason: GM's earnings have dropped 76.5% so far this year, and early November sales fell...