Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read in your July 8 issue what is in store for us in the 1958 automobile. The powers that be in Detroit are really planning some beauties for next year. American cars are already too big, too powerful, too expensive to buy and operate. Why make them more...
...playing up the fact that Cheasty once worked for a Florida legislative commission dealing with a Negro bus boycott, Williams skillfully managed to make him appear anti-Negro. Heightening the picture, ex-Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis, a Detroit acquaintance of Fight Fan Hoffa, turned up as a visitor to the courtroom. Every now and then Joe helpfully left his spectator's seat to chat with Hoffa at the defense table. The Justice Department countered by bringing in a Negro attor ney to sit at the prosecution table, but he was no match...
...Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater. "A miscarriage of justice," rumbled New York Republican Irving Ives, but "Mr. Hoffa's troubles are far from ended." Ahead of Jimmy loom sessions with the McClellan committee, plus a federal trial on charges of having illegal recording devices attached to telephones in his Detroit headquarters. After Hoffa's acquittal last week, a gloomy committee staffer ventured that a forthcoming investigation of teamster links with New York labor racketeers might lead to new charges against Jimmy. "But don't bet on it," the staffer warned. "Don't ever bet on anything again...
Televiewers know what they do when the commercial comes on the screen, but sponsors hate to believe it. In Detroit last week, executives of the Ford Motor Co. brooded over the results of a ten-city survey in which 2,600 set owners were quizzed within 30 minutes of the time five TV programs (Zane Grey Theater, Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, G.E. Theater, Ford Theater, DuPont Cavalcade) went off the air. The first jolt was the discovery that only 10.3% of the sample (270 people) had seen the shows in question. The next was the discovery that fully...
Here and there appeared signs of a hesitation that could not help pleasing the Fed's Martin, who recommends reduced spending and increased savings as a check on inflation, even if it understandably fails to delight businessmen. Auto sales were not rising to Detroit's high expectations (though production rose last week), and gasoline sales were running behind seasonal expectations. The hoped-for upturn in home-building starts has failed to materialize...