Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the first angry blast at Dr. Berger's claims, a handful of sports figures-a few American pro footballers, a former Olympic swimmer from Australia, a Canadian team physician-frankly admitted that the doctor had a point. When he was playing for the Detroit Lions, recalled Quarterback Tom Dublinski, who later switched to the Toronto Argonauts, he once took a pill that pepped him up too much. "It hopped me up to high heaven," said Dublinski with a shudder. "That's no good-a quarterback has to be steady...
...Motors President Harlow H. Curtice to warn that automakers may locate new plants out of state to avoid high corporate taxes, is also affecting contracts awarded by armed forces. Army gave $119 million tank contract to Chrysler, but told automaker to fill order at its Delaware plant because using Detroit facilities would pad bill by $300,000 Michigan tax, plus $1,579,000 in other costs...
...channel in the St. Mary's River near the Soo Locks. Later, a work force of 800 to 1,000 will dredge the Straits of Mackinac channel between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, deepen the channels in the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River. Total cost to the Federal Government: $136 million, more than has been spent on the Great Lakes connecting channels in the past 130 years...
...Minnesota legislature, will build eleven slips for deep-draft ships, expects to spend $30 million in all by 1965. Cleveland is budgeting $5,000,000 for new piers and the roadways and utilities that will serve them. But shippers complain that some lakeside ports are still in the doldrums. Detroit and Buffalo have done little to prepare for the seaway surge...
...world's biggest spice firms, takes the opposite tack, with a wood-paneled colonial tea-and-dining room decorated with a ship model made of cloves; the waitresses wear 18th century costumes. One of the handsomest company rooms is at General Motors' new Technical Center near Detroit, where 4,500 employees eat in an air-conditioned glass and stainless-steel world designed by Architect Eero Saarinen. San Francisco's Bank of America and Western Electric Co.'s Cleveland plant have lounges with TV or hi-fi sets and card tables for after-lunch relaxation; St. Louis...