Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned the corner. General Motors, said President C. E. Wilson last week, made a small profit in July, will probably show one for August. But things were far from good. For the year as a whole, G.M. would still be in the red. Charlie Wilson met the press in Detroit's Statler Hotel and told why. His plain talking was characteristic, and significant, for G.M.'s troubles are the troubles of most U.S. mass production industries...
...movement's name: the Cornelian Corner, from 1) Cornelia, Roman mother of the Gracchi, who called her sons her "jewels," and 2) the time-honored maternal practice of turning toward a corner, away from the family, when nursing a baby. Its president: Detroit Psychiatrist Max Wolfe...
Theory & Practice. Most doctors agree in theory that an infant should be nursed, but in practice, say the Cornelians, "breast feeding has been rapidly disappearing from our modern culture." They were shocked to learn that in one Detroit hospital only 5.6% of the babies were breastfed. Cornelians blame the trend on what they regard as such erroneous modern notions as: 1) breast feeding ruins a woman's figure; 2) coddling spoils a baby; 3) an infant should be trained early to accept a rigid schedule...
...Cornelian Corner so far has converted few hospitals. But two Detroit hospitals and others which have adopted the Cornelian plan, allowing infants to nurse as often as 22 times a day, have found that the babies do seem to like...
...early '30s at Houston, they had seen a young pitcher named Phil Cavarretta (now the Chicago Cubs' rightfielder) beat out fuzzy-cheeked Kirby Higbe (now the Brooklyn Dodgers' pitching mainstay). A few years later in Charlotte, N.C. 17-year-old Hal Newhouser (now the Detroit Tigers' 23-game winner, and the American League's most valuable player in 1944 and 1945) wept in the locker room after losing a big game. About 275 big leaguers, one in five, have been Legion alumni...