Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broke up the race and left them an almost unbeatable 8½ games in front of the fading Cards and Dodgers. The only question left: Who among the rundown also-rans will stumble home second? ¶ At a boozy boosters' banquet during which he was supposed to tell Detroit sports fans how his Lions were going to win back the professional football championship, Lion Coach Buddy Parker suddenly switched signals and announced: "I've got a situation here I can't handle any more. These ballplayers have gotten too big for me, or something...
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...detail, the Los Angeles situation was perhaps rosier than other U.S. industrial areas (Detroit, in fact, was hurting as auto plants got ready to shut down for changeovers to 1958 models). But it underscored an important element of the continuing wage-price rise: a nationwide shortage of labor, from engineers to drive-in dishwashers. Despite automation and efficient new machines, the demand for labor is greater than ever, e.g., to build the plant for expanding industry, to provide added services-haircuts, repairs, domestic help-for a rank and file with more take-home pay. At the same time the pool...
...Housing Chief Albert M. Cole and U.S. mayors, who got $250 million allotment from Administration for fiscal 1958 despite Treasury-Budget Bureau drive to pare sum. Of 264 communities that will receive federal aid, top amounts will go to New York ($25 million), Washington, D.C., Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis...
Heirloom? In Detroit, Fred Whiting, charged with carrying a concealed weapon, explained: "That blackjack really isn't mine, your honor. It belongs to my mother...