Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit, where he pleaded guilty in 1951 to a rap of immorally propositioning a plainclothes cop, teary-voiced Singer Johnnie Ray, 32, was nabbed again on the same old charge...
...reached a sales total of $12 billion in October. Bigger gains have been run up in the durable field (see chart), where October sales hit $6.3 billion, up 17% over last year and nearly 10% over September. The durables got a hefty boost in October from soaring sales of Detroit's 1960 auto models, will probably level off this month because of a shortage of cars caused by the steel strike...
...attitude of the steelworkers. Though some unions posted signs saying: "We shall return as slaves of Ike," and issued armbands emblazoned: "U.S.W. of A.-Ike's Slaves," the men were ready to work hard. U.S. Steel and others reported the workers' attitude "excellent." Said a foreman at Detroit's Great Lakes Steel: "Human nature is queer. There isn't any love feast between the workers and the company, but the guys in the plant have lots of pride and self-respect; they want to do a good...
...matter how fast ingot production climbs back, best estimates are that it will be several weeks before finished steel products are moving from the mills; the cold-rolled sheet, needed by Detroit's auto industry, will not be available for another two or three weeks. U.S. Steel estimates that its shipments of finished products will be only 25% for a while, and doubts that many mills can top that figure...
...last week, the roar of auto engines echoed against the foothills of the Rocky Mountains as 23 cars gunned and slid around the $500,000 Continental Divide Raceways near Denver. The competition on the twisty, 2.8-mile circuit was the first endurance race to see how well Detroit's new compact cars stack up against their competition both at home and from abroad...