Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budget, the Departments of Commerce, Agriculture, Treasury in Washington, etc.). Figures for the last few months were very important this year because of diminishing department store sales and price cuts, which indicated a change in the economy. Otherwise very little querying was necessary beyond a check-up on Detroit's auto industry and the layoffs in Cleveland and Cincinnati...
Born. To Henry Ford II, 31, president of the Ford Motor Co. (and grandson of the founder), and Anne McDonnell Ford, 30, granddaughter of Utilitycoon Thomas E. Murray: their third child, first son; in Detroit. Weight...
Last week, at 62, Jam Handy, now a wealthy Detroit producer of industrial films, had a radical amendment to offer. The present continuous kick, said Handy, is too tiring: it gives the legs no chance to "relax, rest and breathe." What Jam Handy proposed was a new stroke that seemed to some swimmers like asking a track man to hop three steps on his right foot, then three steps on his left...
...worried over the enormous problem of integrating its Government-controlled giant into a free-enterprise economy, wanted to know why. It called in a committee of businessmen, headed by able James W. Parker, 62, utility engineer, onetime head of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and president of the Detroit Edison Co. This week, Parker's committee reported back. Its answer was a blast at AEC. (Snapped one AEC staffer: the report clearly showed that industry was "drooling" to grab off atomic energy processes...
Quarter Salesman. When he went down to his Detroit haberdashery one day when it was closed, Louis Dean Kilgore had trouble shaking off the window shoppers who wanted to follow him in. Disturbed over the business he was obviously losing in off-hours, "Red" Kilgore last week set up a coin-operated salesman in his front window. By inserting a quarter in it, an off-hour window shopper can verbally order any item on display, have his name, address and phone number recorded on a tape inside. Next morning, store clerks transcribe the tape, recheck with customers by phone...