Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit says over radio and TV, "Drunk Drivers Go to Jail." It means just that; last year 827 of them did, for a twelve-day average visit. The city's drunk-driver accidents have dropped some 90% in twelve years. As part of its driver-education campaign, black flags flutter on Detroit's police motorcycles on days when a Detroiter has died in traffic...
...disagree. The irreducible minimum is zero." Washington's Safety Director Anthony Ellison counts on the citizen's cooperation. Without it, he says, "You've got nothing." Los Angeles and Washington had fewest deaths per vehicle last year among cities in their population groups, with past leaders Detroit and San Francisco close runners-up. Last year's booby prizes in the large city groups go to New York and Boston. Boston's Chief Traffic Engineer Timothy J. O'Conner last week termed his tangle of jackknifed streets "a nightmare." And a New York safety official...
...other American League game, the Kansas City Athletics met their first defeat in history when Steve Gromek and the Detroit Tigers trimmed them by a 10 to 2 score...
From Washington, the Premier went on a week-long whirl through New York, Philadelphia. Detroit and Chicago (Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino was going to San Francisco and Los Angeles). In Manhattan, where Scelba was welcomed by a cheering crowd, eager greeters pumped his hands and bussed his glowing pink cheeks. Some excavation workers called out: "Hi Mario! Paesan!" In two garment factories Italian-American seamstresses welcomed him with kisses, songs, dances and sentimental weeping. Amidst all the emotion Scelba shed a happy tear or two himself...
...Jimmy Hoffa, 41, pressure tactics is a way of life. In 1936 he quit a grocery clerk's job to start organizing for the Detroit teamsters' locals. With most of the area's teamsters already signed up when he joined, Hoffa looked for new fields to conquer; he threatened to cut off deliveries to some Detroit retailers, thus organized their clerks. By 1946 he was top dog of Detroit's 87,000 teamsters. In 1953 a House committee examined his rule of the Michigan teamsters, found "racketeering, extortion and gangsterism." Along the way, Labor Leader Hoffa...