Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reuther was creating the U.A.W., on the other side of Detroit's Woodward Avenue, in a sparsely furnished second floor walk-up, James Riddle Hoffa was creating a very different kind of union...
While Reuther embraced politics, Hoffa simply bought influence, paying off policemen, prosecutors and anyone else who stood in the way. His image was cemented forever in 1975 when Hoffa went to a Detroit restaurant to meet several Mafiosi and never returned. He is still revered by members who say they owe their place in the middle class to him, and his legacy lives on. The results of the election campaign his son James P. has waged for his father's old job are expected this month...
...probably wondered, "Who is this little s.o.b. fresh out of college?" He wasn't real big on college graduates, and I was one of 50 in the Ford training course in September 1946, working in a huge drafting room at the enormous River Rouge plant near Detroit...
...vision would help create a middle class in the U.S., one marked by urbanization, rising wages and some free time in which to spend them. When Ford left the family farm at age 16 and walked eight miles to his first job in a Detroit machine shop, only 2 out of 8 Americans lived in the cities. By World War II that figure would double, and the affordable Model T was one reason for it. People flocked to Detroit for jobs, and if they worked in one of Henry's factories, they could afford one of his cars...
Nobody was more of an inspiration to Ford than the great inventor Thomas Alva Edison. At the turn of the century Edison had blessed Ford's pursuit of an efficient, gas-powered car during a chance meeting at Detroit's Edison Illuminating Co., where Ford was chief engineer. (Ford had already worked for the company of Edison's fierce rival, George Westinghouse...