Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Autos. General Motors wound up its eight-day showing of its new models in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria (TIME, Jan. 24) with a total attendance of 320,000. The new models had gone over so well that one Detroit "new-used" car dealer said he had been offered $853 above the list price for a 1949 Chevrolet...
...When Detroit newsmen asked the police to issue new 1949 press cards-usually a routine procedure-they got a surprise. Last week, Harry S. Toy, the squat, eagle-beaked police commissioner who has talked darkly about a "Red revolution in Michigan," said that, to get a press card, every reporter would have to 1) fill out a form listing his press experience, and 2) swear that he was not a member of "any organization affiliated with the Communist Party or Communism...
...outraged howls that rose from Detroit's city rooms, Toy (known as "Headline Harry") replied that a press-card holder "gets in not only to fires, but to waterworks and the like. There are methods of internal attack. In the event of a war with Russia, attacks internally will be followed by a beachhead in Detroit...
Most newsmen thought that distant hypothetical danger far less than the nearer hint of censorship in Headline Harry Toy's action. Snapped a Detroit Free Press reporter: "It's one of the most ridiculous attempts at censorship that I've ever seen a sawed-off local official pull...
...number of jobless in some states. The layoffs were also caused by a seasonal slump in building, and shutdown for inventory-taking, retooling, etc. In New York, the number getting unemployment benefits jumped from 320,544 in November to 461,280. But in such places as Pittsburgh and Detroit, there was no letup...