Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just where the strike stood, nobody quite knew. From his emergency headquarters in Detroit, burly, bent-nosed N.M.U. President Joe Curran predicted that the N.M.U. drive for a 40-hour-week, pay boosts and a Union hiring hall would paralyze lake shipping in 10 days. His early count of 105 ships and 4,000 men idle differed sharply, however, from a press survey (56 ships idle...
...Detroit at Washington cancelled...
...Detroit an anniversary went unnoted: the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. was one year old. But no cake and candles were needed to tell established automakers last week that U.S. industry's noisiest postwar baby was about ready to climb out of the crib. Even those who still scoffed at K-F's extravagant promises now looked with respect toward Willow...
George showed his usefulness in a dozen different ways. Through some inadvertence Candidate Truman was scheduled to appear at conflicting C.I.O and A.F.L. rallies in Detroit. George fixed that, made everyone happy. He went along on the gruelling, transcontinental Truman campaign trip, smoothed over Truman blunders. He kept the candidate amused, became his fast friend, saw him elected...
...Detroit's automakers last week set a postwar record with 80,439 cars and trucks; this week they expected to do better by at least...