Word: detroit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...went to work. The State Department's Will Clayton set up meetings with Detroit big shots, who promised to supply the trucks. Steamship Tycoon Albert Moore (Moore-McCormack) agreed to deliver the trucks if Brazil could promise "no waiting" at its snafued docks (TIME, April 7). President Dutra gave his word. Last week's delivery was the payoff...
Died. Henry Ford, 83, industrial dynast, Yankee mechanic who made Detroit synonymous with mass production and whose famed Model T gave the U.S. good roads, bad jokes and a new way of life; in Dearborn...
Just ten months ago, a shrewd labor lawyer named Edward Lamb won a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving Michigan's Mt. Clemens Pottery Co.-and thereby opened the door to over $5 billion in portal-to-portal back-pay suits. Then the case was sent back to Detroit's federal court, where it had started, to determine how much was due the pottery workers. This time Lamb did not fare so well...
...Department of Justice, scared by the political furor over portal pay, asked that the claims be thrown out, on the grounds that they were trifling. (The Supreme Court had advised that all "trifling" amounts be ignored.) The Detroit court agreed. So three weeks ago Lawyer Lamb appealed, starting the case up to the Supreme Court again. The Department of Justice, hoping that the Court would reverse itself and kill portal pay for good, obligingly asked for a quick hearing...
...plug Detroit's Timken Silent Automatic Oil Burner, Dean Robinson handed out architects' sketches of houses, along with a folder of building information. So many people wrote in for blueprints that Timken was swamped. Robinson thought Timken should go into the business of supplying blueprints. But Timken said no. So Robinson quit and decided to do it himself. He teamed up with Designer Richard D. Pollman, 33, and two other Detroiters to form Home Planners...