Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...message calling for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, extension of social security and health insurance, an increased minimum wage (from 40? to 75?). Then he climbed aboard his newly refurbished railroad car, the Ferdinand Magellan, to carry his message to a joint A.F.L. and C.I.O. rally in Detroit, to four other Michigan cities, and Toledo...
Rayon & Heir. It was obvious that Detroit's motor industry, biggest U.S. steel consumer, could use a mill of its own. But it had none until Humphrey put together Great Lakes Steel, later merged it into National Steel Corp. (27% Hanna-controlled). Long before the industry itself woke up to the fact, Humphrey discovered that Cleveland's Industrial Rayon Corp. was revolutionizing the rayon industry by a continuous spinning process; Hanna bought control (17%). In 1945 he merged some of Hanna's coal interests into the mammoth new Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. (57% Hanna), and became boss...
...weight to the Democratic ticket. As an added fillip, the A.D.A., which had done its best to displace the President at Philadelphia, pledged him its support. Harry Truman had cause to be heartened. At week's end, tanned and refreshed, he returned to Washington, ready to head for Detroit and the beginning of the campaign...
Trying to regain the Gold Cup he won in 1946, Bandleader-Motorboater Guy Lombardo wound up in the choppy Detroit River just after the start of the first heat. He swung sharply to avoid a rival, flipped over, sailed 15 feet through the air, escaped with a broken arm and bruises. His $100,000 speedboat, Tempo VI, was almost a total loss; experts thought they might be able to salvage the engine...
...though the families of his patients have often seen the point, too late. For years the federal Food & Drug Administration has had a suspicious eye on Dr. Koch. But last week he was still doing business at the same old stand: his "Koch Foundation," an old brownstone house on Detroit's East Jackson Street. And Dr. Koch's business was still brisk (about $100,000 a year...