Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, Walter Reuther made his demands on Chrysler: 23½? more an hour, with enough fringe raises to bring the total to 30?. In Pittsburgh, Phil Murray was dickering for a "substantial increase" for his steelworkers. Now, as last year, labor insisted that higher living costs must be met with higher wages...
Consumers could hardly believe what their pocketbooks told them. On scores of items last week, prices were coming down. The big surprise was in autos. Thanks to the tremendous demand, there had been plenty of talk in Detroit of another boost in car prices all around...
...passenger takes his seat in an airliner, he is not apt to feel that he is a specially marked person-usually quite the contrary. Young Bill Keyes, settling into his seat in an Eastern Airlines DC-3 in Detroit, felt as air passengers usually feel-partly like a piece of baggage, partly like a lonely soul. As the plane stopped at Cleveland and Akron, the seats filled up around him. Dozing, thinking of his vacation-to-come at home in Boynton, Fla., he scarcely watched as the plane lifted over the Alleghenies and dropped down toward the Carolinas...
...Along Detroit's "Sharpers Row," used-car hub of the U.S., prices skidded as much as 40%. In Chicago, a 1941 Cadillac which would have sold for $2,700 a few months ago was on sale for $2,100. In Los Angeles, Kelley Kar Co., which boasts that it is the biggest used-car dealer in the world, cut prices $200 to $500 a car. In Cleveland, prices were off about 20% and dealers were referring to any 1942 model as "a white elephant." Hardest hit were 1946 models. A few weeks ago they were selling from...
Rebuttal (April). In Detroit, wife-beater Zigmund Norkoski, under court injunction not to lay a hand on her, found a way: butting her with his head...