Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Associate Professor of Chemistry Wayne University Detroit, Mich...
...f.o.b. system of selling steel. Some of last week's increases: about $5 a ton in Philadelphia, $4-plus in Cleveland, up to $8 in St. Louis. On top of these some companies piled extras, pleading the elimination of the basing-point system (TIME, July 19). 'Detroit's Great Lakes Steel Corp. made its new f.o.b. prices $4 a ton more than the old ones, to match those of distant competitors, plus freight to Detroit...
...Detroit, 200-lb. Bob Lemon of the Cleveland Indians, a revamped third baseman, took a big stride toward becoming 1948's pitcher-of-the-year by twisting the Detroit Tigers' tail as no pitcher had before him in 26 years. He gave no hits, only three walks. It was his eleventh win of the season (against six defeats) and the American League's first no-hitter under lights...
Died. Albert Jesse Browning, 48, vice president of the Ford Motor Co., wartime director of purchases for the U.S. Army; of a heart ailment; in Detroit...
...ordered its dealers to figure their markups (25%) on the old prices (thus cutting their profit by an average $25-per-car). The grey market was already placing a far different price structure on the new Ford. On "used" car lots, new models were selling at $3,000 (the Detroit-delivered price ranges from...