Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They contended the election of Hoffa, Midwest boss of the teamsters, and other delegates from Locals 299 and 357 in Detroit was not conducted in accordance with the union's constitution...
...situation will in all probability get worse before it gets better. Detroit keeps upping its yearly production of cars, and it keeps making them bigger at the same time. And as the University undertakes to construct new buildings, the available parking space is reduced...
...Fare. In Detroit, Cabby Roscoe Damron, 60, heard his passenger mumble "something about having no money," pulled up to a police station, went in to fetch help, returned to find...
...production increase is exactly what Detroit's automakers hope to achieve for the rest of this year and next. Despite a near-record backlog of unsold 1957 models. Henry Ford II upped his sales forecast of last May by another 200,000 cars, predicted a total of 6,000,000 this year. The company's dealer orders are bigger than the production goals in several lines. Chrysler's cars are still selling well, and even General Motors, whose 1957 Buick and Oldsmobile models have fallen behind, expects no real trouble preparing for major model changeovers...
...Russian car, the Zil, will go into production soon to replace the Packard-like Zis as the Reds' top luxury model. Billed as an all-Red design, the seven-passenger Zil still owes plenty to Detroit: two-tone colors, wrap-around windshield and bumpers, automatic shift. The price, though, is strictly Russian: 70,000 rubles...