Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dream Man. In Detroit, Mrs. William Tomashek won a divorce after her husband boasted in his sleep of his extra-marital conquests...
...Shah Goes West. Next day he flew to Detroit in the presidential DC-6 Independence, was immediately hustled off in a long, gleaming motorcade to inspect automobile plants. At the Cadillac factory he asked final-assembly workers so many questions that cars began coming off the end of the line unfinished. He also appeared at two more dinners, greeted his kid brother Mahmoud, a tall, handsome senior at the University of Michigan, and startled a reporter who asked him what he thought of American women. "I see many of them in the streets," he said in puzzled tones...
...Thus Detroit's Ford Motor Co. has had little direct voice in running the subsidiaries on the Continent, has been unable to control their manufacturing and sales methods, has been paid no profits through the Guernsey company since it was founded...
Last week, Ford of Detroit made a deal with British Ford to buy the Guernsey holding company for $11,919,208. With control in its own hands, Ford intends to rehabilitate the overseas companies, hopes to make some profits for them and itself in the process...
...Detroit 2, Toronto...