Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MICHAEL MILTON Detroit...
...past years, the Crimson hasn't exactly set the west afire with its prowess. The last time the young men went west, in 1942, they sustained a five game losing streak at the hands of Bradley Tech, Detroit, Michigan State, Illinois, and Notre Dame, with a total of 212 points scored against their 168. Toughest to take was the Bradley Tech game, a 48 to 44 loss...
From the Kansas City Philharmonic came a cacophony of sweet and sour notes: the too-familiar sweet notes of Brahms and the too-familiar sour notes of an empty cash register. Conductor Karl Krueger had signed up with the Detroit Symphony. Sponsors debated whether to try out a new conductor or cancel the next concert season. In the end, they hired lanky Efrem Kurtz. Since that time, three years ago, they haven't had a moment's regret...
Last week young Henry Ford II announced that the seven-year deal was off. Neither Ford nor Ferguson gave a reason for the split. Detroit guessed that money-losing Ford had decided it was not getting enough out of the deal. Ford is setting up a new company to be headed by General Motors Vice President Frank R. Pierce to make its own tractor and a complete line of farm implements...
...think Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's policy too anti-Russian. Said Driberg: "I must warn the Foreign Secretary that . . . the people of this country will certainly not follow him to war now or in five years' time against Soviet Russia in partnership with the barbaric thugs of Detroit or the narrow imperialists of Washington or Wall Street...