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Word: detroits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announce that he would have to cancel out the rest of his Minne sota schedule, return to Washington and vote on the farm bill. By that time Adlai Stevenson was on his way back to Chicago, rubbing his hands about Minnesota and preparing a speech for weekend delivery in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The High & Low Roads | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...only a character on paper to legitimize the theatricals and to avoid the government taxes." "1776", the next year's show, evidently profited from the merger as it embarked on one of the most ambitious Pudding tours ever. It played to audiences in Boston, Northampton, Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Detroit...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Pudding Shows: Who Cares About the Money | 3/13/1956 | See Source »

...taken off them about the time they go home from the hospital. Many eminent heart specialists have advocated long-term preventive treatment, but the most impressive data in support of their theory have not yet been published. Dr. White gave a preview of them: in a study at Detroit's Ford Hospital, the death rate among patients who kept on taking anti-clotting drugs after a heart attack was only one-third to one-half what it was among those who were taken off the drugs. This evidence convinced Dr. White, who at first opposed the treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Precaution for Ike | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...wire services clacked out the news within seconds of each other. The first take on each wire was marked 10:52 a.m. Typical of the swift reaction was the Detroit News, which got the flash from its own correspondent, Martin S. Hayden. An operator waiting at a special number for Hayden's call connected him with a waiting editor, who was holding an extra phone open to the pressroom. There printers were poised over two silent presses with plates headed IKE SAYS YES and IKE SAYS NO. After Hayden's call it took the News one minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Y-Day | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...head umpire-the same Hank O'Day. This time O'Day surprisingly called Merkle out, ruled the game a tie. The Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance Cubs went on to win the playoff and the pennant-and took the World Series from Hughie Jennings' Detroit Tigers (Ty Cobb & Co.) four games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Great Bonehead Play | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

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