Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcement of compact cars from Detroit reminds me of the story of the circus that advertised having "the biggest midget in the world...
...Detroit's automakers, who consume 15% to 20% of the nation's steel, are worst off, face heavy layoffs in the next few weeks. General Motors has already laid off 60,000 of its 330,000 production workers, will lay off another 60,000 this week. Chevrolet's Framingham, Mass, plant is closed; all but three of Chevy's other twelve assembly plants go down this week. Some of Chrysler's plants are on a four-day basis, and the companies may have to close some parts and components plants altogether this month because...
...biggest expansion programs in U.S. industry. For the last year, the company has been opening new department stores at a record rate. In the last month alone Barr has overseen the opening of new stores in Richmond and Oakland, Calif., and the company's largest store in Detroit's suburban Livonia shopping center; he plans to open stores in Abilene and Tyler, Texas within the next months. Ward's sales reflect the growth: last week the company announced eight-month sales of $756,071,243, a 14% hike over last year. By year's end. Ward...
Winner Frager won a $1,000 cash prize and engagements with the New York Philharmonic and the Buffalo, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit and Pittsburgh orchestras. Three times a Leventritt finalist (in 1955, '56 and '57), Frager has played with the Detroit Symphony and other front-ranking U.S. orchestras. The son of a stocking manufacturer, he started playing the piano at four, was giving recitals in his native St. Louis when he was six. By the time Frager graduated with honors from Columbia (major: Russian) he had already won several piano prizes, and taken a turn about a European concert...
...their problems, trying to correct one of their big complaints-poor assembly-line workmanship. He likes to inspect the Chevies in showrooms and on the lots, peers under hoods, checks the chrome, looks hard for water leaks. On occasion, he has flown in a team of engineers from Detroit to replace all faulty parts. Time and again, dealers give him their highest possible accolade; they bubble that "when Ed Cole talks to you, he makes you feel like you're talking to another dealer." Such loyalty will not hurt Ed Cole in the coming battle of the compacts...