Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still have broadcasts of the Boston and NBC Symphony Orchestras, the Detroit Orchestra, the Orchestras of the Nation Series, and the Metropolitan Opera," he added. "But others of this kind have of late been abandoned in favor of advertisers or jazz orchestras...
...Louis (N) 4, Detroit...
...After a year in England, Mrs. Sarah Blakely, 90, changed her mind about dying in her native land and returned to Detroit. Said she: "I didn't want to die on an empty stomach...
...Arab warriors in battle dress and kaffiyas (headdresses), crowded the streets on leave from nearby Camp Qatana. Military police of the volunteer army set up standards of discipline unusual in Arab forces. One night last week a volunteer stepped into Freddie's bar (Freddie worked nine years in Detroit factories) to order a drink of arak, a fiery, licorice-flavored distillate of raisins. Two Arab MPs accosted him. "Aren't you ashamed?" they asked. "You who are about to die for the cause of Palestine, risking your immortal soul for a drink?" He left quietly...
...Philadelphia, the American Friends Service Committee announced that nearly 800 U.S. college students would participate in 60-odd Quaker-sponsored summer work projects. Samples: rebuilding a fire-razed Maine community; the development of recreation programs in Detroit, Chicago and Rowland, Me.; reconstruction of homes and community buildings in Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland and the U.S. zone of Germany...