Word: detroiter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mayors of New York City, Boston, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Louisville, Ky. and Amarillo, Tex. appeared last week before Representative Woodrum's sub-committee which is looking into WPA's past before appropriating for its 1940 future.* To the mayors' debt-ridden cities, WPA is a fairy godmother and they are her loyal courtiers. All the mayors were unanimous that: 1) WPA must go on, 2) work relief must not be returned to the States & municipalities, 3) WPA has done a great job of permanent value. This year there was a sober note in their pleas...
...Detroit's Reading called WPA's shortcomings "only flyspecks on a great picture. . . . They can be taken off without hurting the picture...
Best singles score among the 1,500 lady bowlers: 626 (for three games), rolled by Detroit's Helen Hengstler. Best singles score among the 7,000 male pin-topplers: 730, chalked up by 59-year-old James Danek of Forest Park, Ill. Other congressional high marks: women's doubles, 1,130; men's doubles, 1,405; five-woman team, 2,618; five-man team, 3,151; women's all-events, 1,724; men's all-events, 2,028. Top-notch women bowlers use the 16-lb. ball, same...
...operations lay ahead-October would start the 1939 auto model year off with a bang. Soon all steel-peddling haunts buzzed with reports that auto production schedules called for 1,000.000 1939 cars by year's end. At a ton of steel per car, Detroit would have to buy 1,000,000 tons. Buick had just bought 35,000 tons. Ford was shopping for 50,000 tons. For the steel industry the days of on & up were coming back...
...steelmen quickly realized had been the price, but was the price no more. There started a week's orgy of price cutting. Steel price quotations fell as rapidly as stock quotations on a Hitler-speech day. The independents (staying in the black) offered to lay steel down in Detroit for $8 a ton less than the U. S. Steel Corporation, and the U. S. Steel Corporation (going into the red) met the cut. Little Steel's Girdler and Big Steel's Stettinius traded punches till both were sorry...