Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With millions going down the drain, young Henry Ford's new team was trying, among other things, to plug the holes by saving pennies. And most of the penny-pinching was being done by Vice-President and Purchasing Agent Albert Jesse Browning (TIME, May 6), who learned about Detroit production as No. 2 Army procurement officer during...
Last Puritan. In Detroit, Congregationalist Minister Albert Ziarko sued wife Zelda for divorce, complained that she smoked in front of parishioners, failed to dust his Bible...
...Patsy. In Detroit, neighbors of the Kramer Bros. trucking company, aroused by the drivers' "loud profanity," got a court order restraining them from saying anything stronger than "for pity's sake...
...Line. In Detroit, Thomas Oliver, charged with threatening to bump 1946 model cars with his ancient jalopy, explained: "I hate people who own new cars...
...same in other cities where New Deal Democrats had rolled up big majorities-in Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia and St. Louis. In New York City, where three great county machines had been coasting too long, the old, fat pluralities were melted to a grease spot...