Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shock Therapy. In Detroit, after he rammed Charles Shepherd's auto, Walter H. Hobbs was fined $10 despite Shepherd's plea in his defense that since the collision his car had run better than ever...
Sculptor Stankiewicz came by his love for junk naturally. He was raised in one of Detroit's toughest districts, used a foundry dump for his playground. During a World War II hitch in the U.S. Navy, he found himself whiling away time in the Aleutians by whittling caribou horn, decided to cash in his G.I. Bill on an art education. He studied with Hans Hofmann in Manhattan, polished off in Paris with Painter Fernand Lèger and Sculptor Ossip Zadkine. Back in Manhattan he set out to shape his future by reclaiming the flotsam and jetsam...
Never in peacetime had business worked so hard, yet fallen so far behind demand for many of industry's products. Detroit's automakers alone poured $1.7 billion into expansion in 1956, but at year's end were embarrassed by a shortage of 1957 models. Railroads shelled out $1.3 billion for expansion, and were plagued by one of the greatest freight-car shortages in history. Utilities and mining expanded by $6 billion, and were still beset by complaining customers...
...height of the great 1919 steel strike, the U.S. press carried so little news of the dispute that 32 labor editors decided to start a cooperative, nonprofit news service solely to cover union activities. The agency: Federated Press. Since 1922 the F.P. has been run by Carl Haessler, a Detroit newsman, publicist, e.g., with the Institute for Mortuary Research, and a self-styled "anticapitalist" who was court-martialed for refusing to put on an Army uniform in World War I, later went to Alcatraz for leading a prison strike. Not long after its founding, F.P. began to toe the Socialist...
Last month, with fewer than 50 subscribers, Haessler, 68, decided to suspend operations "temporarily." Last week he announced in Detroit that Federated Press would not resume service...