Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dozen times in recent months, the steel shortage nipped motor car production this week. Five Detroit auto plants were closed down; some 37,000 workers were laid off. With General Motors limping along at only 65% of capacity, Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. said that "it looks as if it would be two years at least" before there was enough steel. Ford Motor Co. did more than grumble; it earmarked $18 million to build a blast furnace and buy a secondhand rolling mill to turn out steel itself...
Hideout. In Detroit, the FBI quickly found Navy Deserter George Kovick, who was blowing plastic bubbles in a five-&-dime store window...
Last week, Johnny Suggs's daughter, now 24, fought through to the final round of the Women's National Amateur Golf Championship at the Franklin Hills Country Club (Detroit). Her opponent was Fellow Atlantan Dorothy Kirby, who is considered, by home-towners, a shade the better. Dorothy, whose playing form is good, is high-strung, and apt to show it under pressure. Louise is a trim 5 ft. 3 in., with a roundhouse swing that would look good on a ballplayer swinging for the fences...
...Grad. Another ghost from the past was Joseph Zack Kornfedder, salesman for a Detroit manufacturer. In other days he was known as Joseph Zack. Old, bald ex-Bolshevik Zack described how he had climbed steadily from organizer to big shot in the party...
Reds & Reuther. The biggest Ford local, Detroit's No. 600, has yet to count its votes. U.A.W. Vice President Richard T. Leonard, who had bargained for the plan, still had a faint hope that the votes of its 62,000 members would save pensions...