Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less significant reminder of how fantastically the world had changed since the Sacred College first met in the 12th Century: two giant planes had brought to Rome the new U.S. cardinals-Archbishops John J. Glennon of St. Louis. Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago, Edward Mooney of Detroit and Francis J. Spellman of New York...
Despite this early sun, there were clouds on the horizon. Detroit's automakers, hardest hit by reconversion and strikes, have yet to tell what they made last year. Nevertheless, industry is well heeled to stand any temporary losses. The Securities & Exchange Commission reported that last September the working capital of U.S. industry stood at a new high of 50.9 billion. More than half was in actual cash...
...many years-ever since "Puddler Jim" Davis took Dewey into the Labor Department-he has been bouncing back & forth between Washington, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, spreading balm. A onetime railroad telegrapher, 59-year-old Jim Dewey has become the government's ace mediator. His methods are simple: get 'em together, keep 'em cool, let 'em talk...
...Thomas was moved at week's end when G.M. electrical workers abruptly ended their strike, affecting 25,000 employes at G.M. plants in Ohio and New York, a handful in Detroit. The C.I.O. electrical workers had secretly settled for an 18½?-an-hour wage boost. (The auto workers are demanding 19½?.) The settlement left Thomas "terribly shocked." Said he: "It put us in an awful spot, since G.M. now will come to us insisting that we settle on the same terms...
...first time in history prelates flew to Rome to receive the red hat. The air travelers from the U.S.: New York's Francis J. Spellman, Detroit's Edward Mooney, Chicago's Samuel Stritch, 83-year-old John J. Glennon of St. Louis, Bishop Thomas Tien of Tsingtao, China. In a dither of pride, TWA officials billed the flight-three gleaming, four-motored planes, "the most distinguished mass-flight of passengers across the North Atlantic in aviation history...