Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Union Boss McDonald exploited the break by signing Kaiser-style contracts with Detroit Steel Corp. and Granite City Steel Co., small companies (less than 1% of U.S. capacity each) that have been operating throughout the strike on union-granted contract extensions. But McDonald's drive never got beyond the easy pickings of the minors, soon hit the stiffened wall of major company resistance. Top steel negotiators declared that the Kaiser contract 1) would cost non-Kaiser companies nearly half again as much, 2) provided contract reopening in 1961, which was "intolerable to all," and 3) left work rules...
...wives and is brought back after death-in the body of Lauren Bacall. "In some sort of jazzy, Old Testament way," says his best friend (Sydney Chaplin), "you're being punished." The show had one ending when it opened in Pittsburgh, another by the time it got to Detroit, will probably have several more before it finishes its two months on the road. The Detroit Times found the "situations and dialogue so uniformly funny . . . that even the most racy moments are disarming." ¶ Saratoga has been dressed up by Designer Cecil Beaton, but Morton DaCosta's musical version...
...Detroit fortnight ago to demonstrate some automated post office equipment, onetime Michigan Boss Summerfield decided to punch a few political buttons. At a fund-raising meeting of top Republicans at the Detroit Club, he unfolded his plan for restoring party amity. Oust liberal State Chairman Lawrence Lindemer, said Summerfield, and the depleted party treasury will soon be overflowing. "Nothing doing," exploded Ford, banging his fist on the inlaid mahogany table. Larry Lindemer is doing a first-rate job, and if Summerfield and his well-heeled friends intend to starve him out, then he. Ford, would personally see that the party...
...Ears. The family skated on the edge of poverty. When it moved to Port Huron, Mich., twelve-year-old Tom got a job as a news and candy butcher on the daily train to Detroit. The conductor let him build a tiny laboratory in a corner of the baggage car, and Tom fiddled with test tubes, chemicals and batteries. One morning, his arms full of newspapers, Tom tried to swing on to the departing train. He would have fallen under the wheels if a trainman had not hauled him aboard by the ears. Something "snapped...
...Russians arrived Thursday evening from New York and saw banks, insurance companies, and industrial firms for the next four days. They left for Detroit Tuesday, after the Business School tour...