Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, where the battle lines were being drawn, the number of idle workers went up to more than 86,000 when a Chrysler Corp. Dodge truck plant shut down, laying off 2,200; 800 others for whom there was work found pickets on duty when they arrived at the plant. The 800 did not work. Neither did 50,000 workers shut out of Ford plants because of a continuing strike-which defied even U.A.W. settlement efforts-at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel...
Strategic Bombing. As the battle lines were drawn last week, the U.A.W. lined up its own general staff: Secretary-Treasurer George F. Addes, 35, ex-metal worker and leader of the union's far-left wing; Vice President Richard Truman Frankensteen, 38, now running for mayor of Detroit; Walter Reuther, 38, boss of the union's left-of-center faction; and President Rolland Jay Thomas, 45, balance wheel between the warring Reuther-Addes factions...
Irishman with a Combination. Nothing mattered much after that. Detroit split the next day's doubleheader. Washington, with only six games left to play, was a gloomy four games back in the lost column. Any combination of six, either Tiger wins (out of nine to play) or Senator losses, would do the trick...
With the American League pennant odds even-Stephen at "6-to-5 and take your pick," the first-place Detroit Tigers limped into Washington last week for the payoff. Lefty Hal Newhouser (won 22, lost 9) had the miseries in his back; Slugger Hank Greenberg was out with a sprained ankle; Sparkplug Eddie Mayo had a wrenched shoulder...
After they drove knuckleballer Dutch Leonard (16-7) to cover-Leonard pitched the Tigers out of last year's pennant-40-year-old Doc Cramer broke up the party with a game-winning triple. Score: Detroit 7, Washington 4. In the nightcap, Rudy York shrugged off the menace of high-walled Griffith Stadium (the Senators have hit only one homer there all year) by belting his 18th. That helped Dizzy Trout (18-14) realize an iron-man promise to win five games in two weeks. Score: Detroit 7, Washington...