Word: detroit
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Esmerelda II is no ordinary car. True, she was spawned of a punch press and a Detroit turret lathe sometime in the early '30s, just like millions of others. But there the resemblance ends...
...trail from Detroit to Cambridge was not straight, and Esmerelda's early years are clouded in obscurity. But these facts are known: last year, sometime in the early spring, she was given to four Radcliffe girls by a group of Harvard undergraduates...
Born. To Walter P. Reuther, 39, president of the C.I.O. United Auto Workers, and May Wolf Reuther, 36: a daughter, their third; in Detroit. Weight...
Young Henry Ford gave a big business lunch last week. The lunch was alfresco, at his onetime summer home at Deer Lake Farms, near Detroit. Under tents, Young Henry and 300 guests quaffed beer and cocktails, munched cold meats and salad, buffet-style, then watched a new Ford tractor plow the hard clay of the field outside. Said Young Henry, introducing his latest product: "Since the days of my grandfather ... we have always had one foot in the soil, and one foot in industry. We will continue that policy...
Start a Squabble? Last week the stock was still unfloated, the plant still idle. Worse, many of his dealers had deserted to Dearborn Motors. They would find their new product, retailing at $1,095 f.o.b. Detroit, familiar. At the party on Dearborn Motors' experimental farm - purchased last year from Henry II-those who saw the new tractor thought it looked so much like the Ford-Ferguson machine that many predicted a patent squabble...