Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the nation strikes flickered here & there. But they were mostly the normal sparks from clashing industrial gears: 16,500 building-trades workers in Detroit; 14,000 employees at Inland Steel; 7,500 cement workers in the northeastern states. The only major strike was the month-old walkout of 340,000 telephone workers, who seemed on the verge of coming to terms this week...
Despite a limp (one leg is shorter than the other), he has rolled more perfect (300) games, 68 in all, than anyone else. He can and does bowl with either hand, with both at the same time, with his foot. In Detroit, where bowling goes biggest in the U.S., he gets $900 a week when he puts on exhibitions. Says he: "If I'd been a golfer, I would have putted with precision. As a bowler, I am a master of rhythm." Varipapa's confidence is unbruised by the fact that in 16 tries he has never...
...Against 18,000. In Los Angeles last week, amid the rumble-and-crash of mineralite balls on maple alleys, Andy Varipapa again flunked his A.B.C.s. The unknown who pushed into the lead at the tourney's halfway point was slim, 49-year-old Fred Breckle of Detroit. His score was 738; Varipapa's, 715. But the man the crowds came to see was Varipapa, who has won every other major tournament often enough...
Trouble No. 1. Detroit Builder George Miller knows why houses aren't selling: a house he could build in 1940 for $5,090 costs $9,990 today. The NHA index of building costs for a standard house stood at 137.4 (1935-39 average = 100) on V-J day (see chart). In the next 18 months it jumped as much as it had in the previous six years. But the real shocker was the way costs had skyrocketed in the last six months...
...down to 300 to 500. Because they get time-and-a-half or double-time for Saturday and Sunday work, some Chicago building-trades workers like to knock off for two days in midweek and work on weekends. And wages, at an alltime high, are still going up. In Detroit, for example, where carpenters average 110% above prewar-$102.20 weekly with overtime-they are demanding a 42½-an-hour increase...