Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safeguard. In Detroit, Corporal Fred Martin faced the fact that there are "too many good-looking women" around for him to resist, asked for and got, as a rider to his divorce decree, a court order restraining him from marriage for two years...
...Department's specialist in military government, Major General John H. Hilldring, gave the outline in Detroit this week. Said he: "The sincerity of the U.S. . . . is on trial in Korea. . . . We have dug in. We shall stay until our mission is accomplished." The military figure of speech was apt. In Korea the U.S. faced the Soviets across a steel line bisecting the country-the 38th parallel. This was the outgrowth of Yalta. To the north were 10,000,000 Koreans under Soviet rule, with nearly all the nation's industrial resources but little agriculture. To the south were...
...face of it, the deal seemed to be a rather severe rebuke for Continental. But Continental was so suspiciously quiet that Detroit guessed it was glad to get rid of the job. Car makers felt that Continental could make motors faster than K-F could use them and so could not make money on the comparatively small production K-F could absorb. Nor was the outlook for bigger K-F production bright. The straight-from-the-shoulder facts last week were that, even in a still tight auto market, Kaisers and Frazers were not selling too well...
...body, and it's not radical." But the biggest reason for lagging K-F sales is price. Competing automakers reckon that the Kaiser and Frazer should sell for around $1,600. But the Kaiser is now up to $2,029 and the Frazer up to $2,220 F.O.B. Detroit. At such figures, car buyers can get a Cadillac, Buick or Chrysler. Apparently many of them have decided to wait until new cars with old names are ready for them...
Long Stems, Big Prices. Detroit's Ferry-Morse Seed Co., which claims to be the "world's largest producer and distributor" of vegetable and flower seeds, introduced a sweet pea called the Cuthbertson, notable for long stems and resistance to summer heat. Manhattan's Max Schling Seedsmen, Inc., the Tiffany of seed houses (it once got as much as $10 for a packet of delphinium seeds), offered a "Tyrian pink and yellow" dahlia at $15 for a single tuber...