Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Take it easy on an old man, Harvie," pleaded the challenger with a tired smile. Charles Kocsis, 43, Detroit tool distributor, had all but five holes of the final round of the U.S. Amateur golf championship behind him, but he had a slew of other amateur scrambles dating back to 1930 behind him too, and he was bushed. He got no more sympathy than he expected from Defending Champion Harvie Ward Jr., 30. "I can see your lips moving," said Ward, "but I've turned off my hearing...
Testing out his 1956 campaign, Adlai Stevenson ranged across the U.S. last week on a shakedown cruise. From Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New Jersey he fired broadside after broadside at the Eisenhower Administration. On theDemocratic quarterdeck behind him stood the strategists, watching to see which salvo would be most damaging...
Sailing into Detroit's Cadillac Square for a Labor Day appearance, Stevenson drew aim on domestic issues. Before a crowd smaller in size and enthusiasm than those of other Detroit Labor Days, he blasted the G.O.P. for what he called "ugly patches of poverty and insecurity which still deny dignity, even decency, to the lives of almost one-fifth of all American families." To the Republicans he also assigned blame for reduced farm income and layoffs among Detroit auto workers. "When the Republican Secretary of Defense looks at these facts and says that he never liked kennel dogs anyway...
Hard-Boiled Eggs. On hand to greet the visitors and deliver an explanatory lecture was the collection's proud assembler and owner, 31-year-old Detroit Industrialist Lawrence A. Fleischman, vice president of his family's Detroit carpet company, part owner of two TV stations and a rotary-press company. Born of poor Russian immigrant parents, Fleischman scraped through hard times, remembers when the family lived on nothing but hard-boiled eggs for days. As a youth he pitched in to help his father run a small linoleum store in Detroit. After the elder Fleischman nourished his shop...
...ingot capacity: 6.2 million tons). Yaleman Adams, a slender six-footer, started as an open-hearth laborer in 1919 at the old Trumbull Steel Co., where he worked up to assistant general sales manager. Later, he held vice-presidencies with Inland Steel Co., U.S. Steel Corp., Portsmouth Steel Corp., Detroit Steel Corp. Adams caught the fancy of Jones & Laughlin's Chairman Ben Moreell, who remains chief executive officer, by his $115 million Pittsburgh Steel rebuilding program, which is expected to increase sales from $118 million in 1950 to an estimated $225 million this year. ¶ Allison R. (for Ripley...