Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visit to Germany taught him that unions become extinct under dictatorships. His stint as a tool & die maker in Russia's famed Gorky automobile plant taught him that unions thrive only where there is free speech. He returned to Detroit just as the U.A.W. was organizing, in 1935. Naturally, he joined...
...boys scarcely had their hair mussed when Waterfield passed to veteran end Jim Benton for 57 yards. For the rest of the afternoon Waterfield kept on pitching to Benton. When it was over, Benton had caught ten Waterfield heaves for 303 yards, a league record. Score: Cleveland 28, Detroit...
Washington took it off the ration list. But meat-some meat-was viewed with alarm last week by Detroit's Dr. S. E. Gould. Dr. Gould was brooding about trichinosis, the sometimes-fatal worm disease that people get from infested pork...
F.O.B. U.S.S.R. Russia is priming its automotive industry to compete in world markets with Detroit's automakers. Under a new five-year plan, retooled tank plants and new auto factories will mass-produce low-cost cars. The Gorki works alone is scheduled to roll out 1,000 a day. But last week, this news was the least of Detroit's worries...
Quickly the trouble spread. In Chicago, irate restaurateurs and hotelmen acidly asked OPA: how could they go on serving fruit and juices at ceiling prices? Indignant housewives went on strike, began serving prunes for breakfast. Moaned one Detroit retailer, watching his fruit rot on the shelves: "It's terrible. The customers...