Word: detroit
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Bill Murphy is no part of the newspaper tradition that copyreaders are just broken-down reporters. A Yaleman ('17) and onetime Wall Street bond salesman, he left Manhattan to work on the News-owned Detroit Mirror. When Patterson torpedoed it without notice in 1932, Murphy went back to the News to stay...
...planted agent a classic explanation of Capone's success: "Everything is businesslike. Take The Enforcer [Gunman Frank Nitti]; he keeps everybody in line for Al. Somebody gets out of line, Al tells The Enforcer, the next thing you know a couple of guys get off a train from Detroit or New York or St. Louis, and The Enforcer tells them who has to go. The guys do the job and go home. The price...
Family Album. In Pittsburgh, Minnie Just was married to William Good. In Detroit, Juliette St. Amour was granted a divorce from Romeo...
Last year, the University of Buffalo tried the system, acting as a guinea pig for the nation. It was a success both for the students and for the merchants, Bornstein explained. NSA groups in Detroit, New Jersey, Chicago, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and Louisville are working simultaneously with the Boston committee. Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York hope to start soon, he said...
Prices had dropped 10% to 40% in the past six weeks and volume was down even more. Outside of the Big Three (which in some cases were still drawing premiums of $150 to $300), prices on 1948 models were well below list price. On Detroit's Livernois Avenue, capital of the used-car world, things got so bad that 20 dealers closed down. Dealers hoped for a revival next spring, but one said sadly: "The customer will never again pay more for a used car than for a new one. This time the honeymoon is really over...