Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford Motor Co., although its big River Rouge plant remains unorganized, has not been able to avoid all contact with organized labor. As local unions of the United Automobile Workers of America established contact with Ford management in regional assembly plants, potent Personnel Director Harry H. Bennett announced in Detroit that Ford's basic labor policy had not changed. Last week Mr. Bennett had occasion to say this again...
...Laundryman George Preston Marshall's Washington Redskins, defending champions of the National Football (professional) League: a game against the Detroit Lions, 7-to-5, before a crowd of 43,000; at Briggs Stadium, Detroit. With a record of three victories, one defeat and one tie this season, the Redskins led the Eastern Division of the league last week...
Iced Ribs. In remodeling the nose and ears of an auto-accident victim, a plastic surgeon usually has to snip off patches of cartilage from the patient's ribs. Such mutilation is unnecessary, said Dr. Claire LeRoy Straith of Detroit, for cartilage leftovers from, surgical operations and even ribs removed at autopsy can be used in plastic surgery. Since cartilage is nourished by lymph instead of blood it does not undergo extensive or rapid degeneration. And it does not need to be ''matched'' to individuals. Spare ribs should be stored on ice, said Dr. Straith...
...DETROIT--General Motors Corporation, expressing recognition of a responsibility to provide "as much work as possible," today announced a far-flung rehiring and salary increase program that will boost its payroll more than a million dollars a week...
...sign posted near Fairdale, Ore., cautioning sportsmen: "WARNING To HUNTERS - DONT Shoot until U see IT MOVE - it might be a W. P. A. worker." Coincidence In Detroit, year ago, Street Sweeper Joseph Figlock was furbishing up an alley when a baby plopped down from a fourth-story window, struck him on the head and shoulders, injured Joseph Figlock and itself but was not killed. Last fortnight, as Joseph Figlock was sweeping out another alley, two-year-old David Thomas fell from a fourth-story window, landed on ubiquitous Mr. Figlock with the same results...