Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boss Robert M. Critchfield, 61, who will move up to head G.M.'s entire process development staff, Pontiac in 1956 has slipped more than most other G.M. lines. By giving the job to Bunky Knudsen, 43, an engineer who showed a flair for sales as chief of the Detroit Diesel Engine Division, G.M. hoped to speed up Pontiac...
Outwardly, Eero (pronounced arrow) Saarinen (rhymes with far-'n-then) looks like a country family doctor, dresses with the casualness of a young college prof, prefers to live clear of the cities, in the rolling countryside of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (pop. 2,100), 18 miles from downtown Detroit. His headquarters is a simply constructed, often cluttered office shed he designed for himself, just two minutes' drive from his home over winding country roads. Even with an office staff of 43, Saarinen's is a small operation by comparison with the major U.S. architectural organizations, e.g., Skidmore, Owings...
...Tivoli Gardens. Boy!" The younger Saarinen clinched his position as top U.S. architect with the $100 million, 25-building General Motors Technical Center outside Detroit, hailed by Architectural Forum as "an architectural feat which may be unique in our time." A model of modern architecture, the G.M. center has glistening expanses of aluminum, greenish glass and grey porcelain façades, interchangeable office paneling and windows "zippered in" with neoprene gaskets...
Businessmen generally were concerned with the whole state of the economy rather than with the steel segment. Generally, the news was encouraging. The bottom of the Detroit slump seemed to have been reached and passed. Both Ford and G.M. were rehiring, and Ford announced it had found it necessary to increase production schedules for July...
...Mixer. In Hot Springs, Ark., a demonstration of a new drunkometer at the Arkansas Municipal Judges Council had to be postponed after Volunteer Detroit Phillips, primed with whisky, vodka, wine and moonshine, passed out just before the show...