Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RICHARD P. PETTY Detroit...
...Back in New York's Yankee Stadium for an Oldtimers Day reunion of former Yankees and Detroit Tigers, Joe DiMaggio at 42 still looked good enough to make the league, cracked out a single in a brief exhibition "game" of the ancient pros, later trotted the winning run across home plate with oldtime grace...
...billion. With steel operations up 2% last week to 81% of capacity, the industry predicted a steadily rising market through summer. As matters stood, Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube already had the highest first-half sales and profits in history. The steelmen's best customers, Detroit's automakers, were doing even better. Chrysler's first-half profits zoomed 380% to $89.7 million as sales jumped 44% to $2 billion; Ford totaled earnings of $171 million on record first-half sales of $3 billion. Even giant General Motors did not fare too badly: earnings slipped...
...argue that at least a 10% increase is necessary to preserve the air fleet which the nation's security and economic well-being demands. The alternatives, say the airmen, are two: either the weakest airlines will fold and the middling ones merge, concentrating the air-transport industry, like Detroit's automakers, into a few giant companies, or U.S. airlines will be forced once again to come begging for big subsidies such as those supporting the U.S. shipping industry...
...Post; Buffalo Evening News; Chicago Herald-American; Minneapolis Star (whose publisher professed belief in news "without bias or slant or distortion or suppression"); Boston Post (whose major efforts during the period were the championing of Senator McCarthy and the denunciation of the Boston Public Library for housing Russian literature); Detroit Free Press (which at the end of the period said it was "proud of its long record of unbiased coverage of the news"); Indianapolis Star; Los Angeles Times; New York Daily Mirror; New York Daily News (whose president said a survey of bias would "do more harm than good...