Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engines, was also slowly throttling the flow of spare parts to the Berlin airlift. Last week Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington stepped in, invited the United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther and Bendix President Malcolm P. Ferguson down to Washington to face each other (though both live in Detroit, they had never met). After an all-night session at the Pentagon, they came to terms. Bendix agreed to withdraw a $2,000,000 damage suit against the union, to rehire immediately 43 of 47 wildcat strikers who marched off the job in a squabble over assembly-line speeds...
...Detroit River last week, in the first heat of motorboating's famed Gold Cup race, the foot throttle in "Wild Bill" Cantrell's boat went out of whack. The 1,710 horses in his mahogany-hulled boat relaxed; My Sweetie came almost to a stop. Wild Bill, a veteran of Indianapolis' 500-mile auto race, quickly reached under his dashboard for the gasoline-control rod, finished the heat with one hand on the wheel and the other on the throttle rod. After that, the last two heats were easy. After repairs, Wild Bill and My Sweetie...
About ten years ago, Drs. Roy D. McClure and Frank W. Hartman of Detroit's Ford Hospital began experimenting with a photoelectric cell technique first developed in Germany. Later they were joined by Physiologist Vivian Gould Behrmann. Together the experimenters worked out an instrument which gives an almost instantaneous record of the amount of oxygen in the blood...
...Other prognosticators repeated the crack made by Chicago Sportwriter Warren Brown when the Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers met in the wretchedly played World Series of 1945: "I don't see how either of them...
...Detroit Tigers had their own prize bit of the rookie crop in Outfielder Johnny Groth, onetime Navyman (TIME, March 28). Chicago's White Sox had Outfielder Gus Zernial (also ex-Navy), who broke a collarbone four weeks ago chasing a line drive. White Sox fans could hardly wait for Gus to get back into the lineup: he was leading the league with a fancy .355 when he was hurt...