Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Texas the Goularts move on to Kansas City, Detroit and New York (with a stopover in Canada). But with a more relaxed schedule, Goulart, who is also president of the Brazilian Labor Party, will have more time for what he calls his principal job: strengthening relations between the workers of Brazil and the workers...
...President Walter Reuther flatly said there was "no hope" for a sales pickup, asked auto and farm-equipment makers to meet with labor to map plans to help the industries' unemployed; he put the auto figure at 142,000, out of a total work force of 900,000. Detroit was worried, and rightly so. There was also a bright side to the picture. Used cars were moving well, and some late models were in such short supply that prices were better than last year...
...people would rather live in pleasant, factory-free surroundings even though they may have to drive 30 miles to work. The story is the same in Atlanta, where builders are discovering that prospective buyers flock to developments in the rolling suburban hills, pass up those set on the flatlands. Detroit's developers are also learning that they must lay out gently winding rather than block-square streets, set houses in different positions on the lots, and leave the trees standing...
...must feel it is an improvement on the old. For U.S. builders, the early postwar days when any old design would sell are fast dying. To keep on building some 1,200,000 new houses annually, they must meet changing consumer needs and desires much in the same way Detroit's automakers turn out an annual model change. And like the automen, who quickly caught on to postwar yearnings for longer, lower, higher-horsepowered cars, so U.S. homebuilders must ask the man who owns one, and listen to his ideas...
...more and more it began to look as though compromise and the Dawson line might founder on the political facts of life. Last week pressure from Negro voters (who could conceivably tip the balance in nine Northern states) was beginning to tell on local Democratic organizations. In Detroit, Negro delegates walked out of the First Congressional District Democratic convention in an argument over national-convention representation, and powerful Michigan Democrats were threatening privately to force a rip-roaring national convention floor fight to get a strong civil-rights plank in the Democratic platform. If they try, they will get considerable...