Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALBERT DE GROAT, M.D. Detroit...
Last week, against the Detroit Red Wings, Worsley and the Rangers showed both how good and how bad they can be. For two periods the "Broadway Blues" were helpless. The Red Wings scored three times with embarrassing ease. But the Rangers came back to score five times with a demonstration of superb hockey. Lome Worsley was beaten only once more, on a desperate last-minute play. The game ended Rangers 5, Red Wings...
...exhibition run, General Motors' 400-passenger Aerotrain streaked over the Pennsylvania Railroad from Washington to Philadelphia in two hours-as fast as the crack Congressional Limited. The same day, another Aerotrain rolled out of Chicago over the tracks of the New York Central and highballed 284 miles to Detroit in four hours, an hour better than the fastest passenger express. Even more impressive than its speed is the Aerotrain's low operating cost. For the Chicago-Detroit run, fuel cost only $18, about one-fourth the costs of a conventional^ train. G.M. engineers estimate that the Aerotrain...
Bowl Is Pot. More than 125 newspapers across the nation ran the book as a serial. When the Detroit Free Press published its series, one distraught father wrote in to describe the plight of his son in high school. "They are trying to expel him," he said, "or in some manner rid themselves of him. You know why? Because he cannot read. How in the hell he got as far as loB ... is beyond my means of comprehension." In Louisville, a mother reported on her third-grader's typewriting: "He typed the letters very easily . . . But after typing...
...enough for everyone. In Ohio the growth was little short of phenomenal. The Cleveland area alone counted nearly $500 million in new expansion. Samples: a $31 million Union Carbide & Carbon titanium plant, the world's biggest; a $30 million Ford engine plant expansion, making Cleveland second only to Detroit in Ford's future...