Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pitfalls and pratfalls were everywhere. In Detroit last week, a woman walked into a butcher shop without having got an introduction from an old customer. A butcher eyed her, scribbled a note to the boss. It read: "Who is she?" The answer: "I don't know. Starve the bitch...
Bumper to bumper, thousands of Detroit cars nosed through the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. They were headed across the border for Canadian steaks. In Windsor, Vancouver, Niagara Falls and other border towns, Americans ate luscious two-inch steak dinners for $2 or less. U.S. newspapers, running pictures of the lucky feeders, made millions of meatless Americans drool last week...
There was something about the five young Canadians that made U.S. immigration men suspicious. At the Detroit border the Canadians insisted that they were entering the U.S. only to see a movie. But a search disclosed that some of the five had draft cards from a Toledo board in their pockets. They were detained...
...When Detroit's religious leaders complained that the building was just a big sports palace, Studer pointed to the Y's religious program of Christmas and Lenten services, retreats, discussion groups. The clergy finally came around, showed it by twice electing Studer head of the Detroit Council of Churches...
...Detroit's automakers were the hardest hit. Last week, Chevrolet production dropped from 12,347 to 7,792. Briggs Manufacturing Co., which makes bodies for Chrysler and Packard, laid off 7,000 workers, cut schedules in half. Result: Chrysler cut its daily production from 3,600 to 2,775 cars, is expected to lay off 18,000 workers. Ford production too began to slip...