Word: detroit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Decided to launch his campaign on Labor Day with a speech in Detroit under the joint auspices of the A.F.L. and C.I.O...
...robust lady strode up to a man with a package of meat under his arm, demanded: "Don't you know that no decent-minded citizen should buy meat?" In Utica, N.Y., a "Budget Brigade" of 3,000 women phoned other women, asked them to stop buying meat. In Detroit, housewives set up stands outside the markets and exhorted customers not to enter. A man on stilts teetered through the streets of Boston bearing the legend: "Don't buy any meat for two weeks. You'll live...
Checkmate. In Detroit, Vernon Dobson bought a car with a worthless check, sold it at a profit to cover the check with cash, discovered that he had been given a bum check himself...
...finance companies, the weekly Automotive News found that many thought the industry was beginning to price itself out of the market. Associates Discount Corp. reported that monthly payments "now run almost as high as two weeks' pay for the average factory worker." Gene Pratt, vice president of Detroit's Contract Purchase Corp., figured that 70% of potential new-car customers had been "absolutely" frozen out, thought the market could crack overnight...
Some used-car dealers were already beginning to feel a slump. Swamped by offers of new cars (many from owners who could not keep up the payments), Rochester (N.Y.) lots were buying cars for $100 to $300 less than a month ago, despite new markups at the factories. On Detroit's Livernois Avenue, center of the used-car market, one dealer offered a month-old Lincoln coupé, which he bought for $3,559, for $3,350-with no takers...