Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burning days & nights tried the tempers of millions. In Detroit during the week, 45,000 automobile workers walked off the job because of "heat strikes." In Philadelphia, gangs of young hoodlums drove the water department crazy by smashing hydrant couplings and thus assuring themselves continuous shower baths. Across the hot belts scores died from heat exhaustion and drowning...
...already produced about 11,000 cases in the U.S.-a record total for so early in the year. But even so, there were 13,000 who had escaped the disease for every one who was stricken. Comparing 1949 with former years, health officers in New York City, Detroit and Chicago saw reason to hope that the outbreak was at or near its peak, and would soon taper...
...slogan on the American Medical Association's blown-up posters of Fildes' famed doctor-and-child painting, spotted around the lobby of Detroit's Gotham Hotel last week, read: "Keep Politics Out of This Picture." But politics was in the picture and all over the place, and doctors were playing it. The Negro doctors who crowded the hotel were delegates to the annual convention of their own National Medical Association; the A.M.A. "observers" and their displays were there to persuade the N.M.A. to hitch itself as a tail to the A.M.A. kite. They failed...
...matter how fast it grows, quick-stepping, penny-wise Otto Schnering, 57, will keep pace with it. As a boy, he spent his summers on his father's fatrm near Detroit, and hoped to become a farmer too. But after graduation from the University of Chicago, he wanted to get married, so he got a job in a bank...
Still, the creeping recession had not yet crept all over. Detroit was riding high, with the auto industry driving for its biggest postwar year. Last week Chrysler Corp. came up with record first-half earnings of $6.12 a share...