Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity will also meet Yale on Saturday. Their remaining matches are the Intercollegiates at the New York concourse Plaza Hotel, and the N.C.A.A. Championships at Detroit, Michigan...
Most executives think-and their wives agree-that the executive wife should be moderately informed about her husband's business, yet not so concerned that she meddles in his work or tries to push him. (The wife of a $30,000-a-year Detroit executive recently got ulcers while sweating out a promotion for her husband; he came through fine.) Qualities of tact, graciousness and amiability are important if the company is in a small town or if the husband is a sales executive who must entertain frequently...
...spirit of the American tradition, Boston celebrated Washington's Birthday with "open-house" automobile shows patriotically presented by local car dealers. With advertisements which tried to remind customers of Washington's legacy to the auto industry, the auto salesmen invited buyers to use their leisure holiday hours to inspect Detroit's latest magnificent arrivals...
...playing fast and loose with auto-show language. Many of the cars at Daytona contained special power packages (superchargers, fuel injection, etc.) that pushed their motors up to maximum performance and all were assembled and tuned with a care given to no car sold off the showroom floor. Detroit's assembly-line mechanics always allow for a certain amount of "slop tolerance"; Daytona's setup experts allowed almost no tolerance at all. They had thousands of valve springs from which to choose sets in perfect balance, hundreds of carefully matched pistons as spares...
...cars on hand v. 870,000 last year at this time. Demand was strong enough by last week for producers to roll out a 1957 record of more than 148,000 new cars, up about 16% from the same week last year. Ward's Reports said Detroit production will ride at a near record for the first quarter largely because sales-happy Ford and Chrysler will push output 30% ahead of last year. On the other hand, motormakers are paring their stockpiles of steel, aluminum, glass, rubber and paint to normal minimums. Their steel-buying has fallen below their...