Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plucked off an Oklahoma cotton farm: Von and Lindy McDaniel. Von, only 18, has won four, lost one, has a 2.741 ERA; Lindy, 21, has won eight while losing five. Of big brother Lindy, who had only a 7-6 record last year, the Cardinals' manager and old Detroit pitcher Freddy Hutchinson cautiously says: "There's no doubt in my mind that he's going to get faster and stronger as time goes along." But kid brother Von leaves Hutchinson fumbling for words. "I don't know what the hell to say," he admits...
AMERICAN LEAGUE Team: New York (by 3 games). Pitcher: Bunning, Detroit (11-2). Batter: Mantle. New York (.365). RBI: Skowron, New York (64). Home Runs: Williams, Boston...
Picking Up Speed. Detroit's automakers seemed to be picking up speed after a slower-than-expected start in 1957's auto market. While no company has announced its quarterly earnings, gains over 1956 were freely predicted. Auto dealers reported a surprising boomlet at the end of June, which pushed sales for the month to 544,750 units and the best figure since March 1956. The June comeback boosted overall sales for the first six months of 1957 to within 2.3% of the 1956 mark, after they had been 5% behind at the end of the first quarter...
...Numbers. In Detroit, Gas Station Attendant Lonnie Taylor, ordered by a bandit to hand over about $105 cash and then go into the men's room "to count to 100," got to five and hurried out to call police, found the gunman just leaving, was told to get back in and start again-from zero...
...Palos Verdes-and wherever bulldozers sliced down citrus groves to make room for more. From the swarms of workers in electronics and aircraft plants came one big, tumultuous earache. And millions of nerves throbbed with the nightmare of 3,000,000 cars (one for every 2.2 people v. Detroit's one for every 3.2) cascading over 204 miles of multilaned freeways. Added to this was the arrival in Los Angeles last week of 4,200 popeyed newcomers (25 every hour of the year). Like the ever-moving, ever-changing populace that moved aside to make room for them...