Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After six months, Detroit's amateur detectives and junior G-men had almost forgotten about the man who shot Walter Reuther. But last week, investigating a $600 store burglary, state police picked up the trail of one Carl Bolton, 39. Bolton, for a short time, had been a vice president of a U.A.W. local, for a long time the leader and mastermind of a gang of petty thieves. Police found him in Indiana, arrested him and four members of his gang. One of them, an ex-con named Jack Miller, decided to talk...
...William Darling Shepherd for the purpose of murdering his rich young ward, Billy McClintock. Faiman got off by turning state's evidence. A witness testified during the trial that Faiman had operated an unsavory St. Louis "massage-parlor" and was "doctor in chief" of a similar resort in Detroit...
After declining steadily for a week, livestock prices hit their lowest point in more than four months. The cave-in loosened the prop under retail prices. Most Eastern food chains promptly slashed as much as 19% off some pork prices, 35% off beef. Stores in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and points west followed suit, in some cases with even bigger slashes. Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale food price index dropped to its lowest point in 14 months...
...Real Culprits. The case for support was made before the American Bankers Association last week in Detroit by its former president, Frank C. Rathje, of Chicago's Mutual National Bank. Dropping the peg, he said, might well "provoke a storm." The real inflationary culprits, charged Rathje, were not the banks, but the non-bank lending agencies, primarily the insurance companies...
Before the American Bankers Association in Detroit last week, Westinghouse Electric's President Gwilym A. Price painted a brave picture of the new world ahead of U.S. industry, "an economy whose horizons will be almost as far beyond those of the present as today's are beyond those of our boyhood...