Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit's Mt. Carmel Hospital, surgeons crowded around operating tables for the show. One of them deftly slit open a patient's abdomen and explored the cavity. In an outburst of surgeon's humor, a colleague boomed: "Now watch him botch it; never fails to mess it up when he tries to show off." (But the operation, a clinic demonstration, was a success.) Amid such scenes, sawbones of 16 nations got together last week for their first international meeting since before...
Like other members of the United Automobile Workers of America, C.I.O., the employes of Detroit's Bundy Tubing Co. wanted a raise of 18½? an hour. Said Bundy flatly: nothing doing. Labor productivity was down 50%, and the company could not afford higher wages...
...That! In Detroit, Charles E. Depew meekly ducked dishes, books, shoes thrown at him by his wife, rebelled when she asked him to stand in a nylon line, got a divorce...
...race-troubled Detroit last week, at the Church of St. Benedict the Moor, Solemn High Mass was celebrated by a tall, handsome Negro whose brown face and hands contrasted dramatically with the shining white of his alb. The Rev. Dom Basil Matthews, O.S.B., reputedly the first of his race to be ordained a Benedictine priest, had been invited by the Roman Catholic diocese to further its drive for interracial amity...
...four years, the American Arithometer Co. sold only 1,000 machines. Burroughs died and his successor moved the company to Detroit, for a reason that seemed fantastic to weather-beaten Detroiters. He liked the climate. Sales rose steadily, and by 1941, the Burroughs Adding Machine Co. (the name was changed because the public refused to use the word Arithometer) had branched out to calculators, cash registers, electric typewriters, accounting machines...