Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Skids. In Detroit, the FBI reported that William T. Fleming, who had been pinched in '43 and '44 for impersonating an Army captain, and in '45 for impersonating a second lieutenant, was now down to impersonating a first sergeant...
Sued, by C.I.O.'s Walter P. Reuther: a new Detroit periodical which he charged linked him with Rabble-Rouser Gerald L. K. Smith. U.A.W. President Reuther figured he had been libeled $500,000 worth...
...wonder was that no one had thought of it before. Its originator (an engineer) got the idea when an accidental explosion embedded oil droplets in a victim's flesh without marking his skin. The implement was later perfected by a group at R. P. Scherfer Corp., Detroit...
Green Bay 34, Detroit...
Atomic Soil. As TVA administrator, David E. Lilienthal was once the bogeyman of private power magnates. As chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Lilienthal spoke soothing words in Detroit to free enterprisers. Reporting that commercially feasible atomic power was probably at least a decade off, Lilienthal added : "... This atomic industry can never flourish and grow and find its proper place . . . unless it sends its roots deep and wide into the . . . soil of competitive private industry." Suiting action to words, Lilienthal appointed seven industrialists as consultants on atomic power...