Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people seemed to feel let out of school. Never before had the nation been so prosperous; never before had wages been so high and jobs so plentiful. The sense of security was strong (see BUSINESS). Even at the inevitable soft spots there was an easy air. In Detroit, where auto industry employment is down, the A.A.A. travel bureau's Mrs. John Dalzell reported: "We've had a number of workers come in to book trips who say they think they'd better get their vacation while they're off, because they might be called back...
...week's end the Justice Department filed its suit in Detroit (see BUSINESS). Other performing artists on commercial television, from Perry Como to Jackie Gleason, would have to concede that there is something extra in being Attorney General...
...Mann set new world marks of 1:11.8 in the 100 meter butterfly, 2:44.4 in the 200-meter butterfly, and 5:52.5 in the 400-meter medley), Carin knew that her toughest races were still to come. All are pointing for next month's Olympic trials in Detroit. There the winners will be paid off with a plane trip to Melbourne...
...some 3,000 U.S. companies today have their own research facilities, employ 500,000 research workers, including 100,000 scientists. Across the U.S., new research plants are springing up almost as fast as factories. In the past two months alone, General Motors dedicated its $100 million Technical Center in Detroit; U.S. Steel opened a $10 million laboratory at Monroeville Pa.; Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. moved into a $6,000,000 Parma (Ohio) research complex; General Electric completed a $5,000,000 Cleveland laboratory for the study of "psychological and physiological effects of lighting on humans, animals and plants." Other multimillion...
...genius, discovering a new principle and founding a new industry. Now task forces that may number hundreds are thrown into a project; with the help of such research-developed equipment as computers, they can explore in a few weeks problems that would take an unaided worker years. In Detroit, where Henry Ford once puttered with his new car in an old stable, while his wife held the lantern, Chrysler Corp. has 200 scientists and engineers assigned solely to gas-turbine engine development...