Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responsibility. It now seemed prepared to grant reasonable wage increases-to insure uninterrupted production-without raising prices. It looked as though the pattern would work out at around 10 to 15? an hour. Washington heard that Big Steel would hold its price line, despite such an increase. In Detroit, General Motors agreed to a year's contract with an average 15?-an-hour hike for 30,000 electrical workers, with the implication that price rises would not follow...
Hours before the funeral, umbrellas bobbed along the sidewalks in front of St. Paul's Cathedral. Along Detroit's Woodward Ave., the curious hung out of windows, perched on roofs and climbed the trees to get a better view. At the cathedral's entrance, the limousines disgorged the auto city's great. From a maroon Lincoln limousine, Clara Bryant Ford stepped out, leaning on the arm of her grandson, Henry. Inside St. Paul's, in a sealed casket, lay the pinch-faced, fragile remains of her husband...
...like perfume. He was born a tinker, not a farmer, which was what his farmer father had wanted him to be. He was also born stubborn, so he quit the farm and ended up tinkering with a gasoline contraption in a red brick shed back of his house in Detroit. One day in 1896 he took an ax to the wall of the shed (the door was too small) and drove the contraption out into the world. That was the start. He believed in gasoline and the engine. Seven years later, aged 40, he organized the Ford Motor Co., with...
Since then, Stalin has become somewhat better known. Last week, all that Pravda and Izvestia printed on the end of Fordzonishko's father was: "A correspondent of Reuters Agency reports from Detroit the death of the well-known owner of automobile plants, Henry Ford...