Word: detroiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiscal troubles of wealthy "Soapy" Williams (Mennen powder, shaving cream, etc.) arose partly because welfare legislation passed at his urging gobbles up a lot of revenue. But the immediate cause of the state's crisis is the recession. With Michigan hard hit by unemployment, especially in automaking Detroit, the 3% state sales tax brought in $43 million less than Soapy had counted on, and at the same time the state had to increase its total outlays for relief...
Believing that the state's troubles lay primarily in its concentrated industry rather than in liberal economic measures, Williams, Walter Reuther, and Louis Miriani, the mayor of Detroit, asked for a $380 million federal area redevelopment bill to broaden the base of the economy...
...since mid-December. American Airlines, with five 707s operating across the U.S. nonstop to Los Angeles, reported a 96.2% load factor v. the average 66%. The nine Lockheed Electra turboprops delivered so far boast average loads of nearly 80% on nights from New York to Chicago and Detroit. Together, the two jet-powered craft boosted American's February business to an alltime record of 364 million revenue passenger miles, some 8% better than last year at this time. Eastern already has 18 Electras in service, and reports loads 30% to 50% better than the average for piston-engined craft...
Cleaning Up. Most profitable area of ultrasonics thus far is cleaning, where the field is divided between small companies such as Acoustica and Gulton and diversified big ones such as Bendix, Curtiss-Wright Corp. and Detrex Chemical Industries of Detroit. Detrex, the largest U.S. maker of dry-cleaning equipment, last year sold $1,250,000 worth of ultrasonic cleaners for electric shavers, auto-engine parts, outboard motors, jewelry and the tips of ballpoint pens. One cleaner washes a cash register with 5,000 parts in 7½ minutes. Says Detrex's Chief Engineer T. J. Kearny: "Some...
...question was: How did the Detroit puzzle-breaking ring get advance solutions? Suspicions naturally focused on the sources, i.e., the distributing syndicates-principally Bell Syndicate, General Features and Superior Features Syndicate -which sell puzzle contests to newspapers. In New York. Andre F. L'Eveque, who runs Superior Features, announced that he had found and plugged a leak and had given full details to the FBI. The other syndicates insisted that the precautions they take against leaks are foolproof. But what happened in Portland presented undeniable evidence that more than a leak at Superior was involved, since another syndicate...