Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DETROIT FREE PRESS : The affair leaves a bad taste. If it was a setback for President Eisenhower, it also added very little to the prestige of the Senate...
...duty in the G.I. mess hall at fancy-pants Fort Myer, Va., just across the Potomac from Washington, Pfc. Andrew God Jr. was supposed to be peeling potatoes. But like many a soldier before him on many another potato pile, Soldier God, a Detroit architect before the draft caught him, was fairly hacking the daylights out of the spuds, so his mess sergeant reported him for goofing off. Sent up before Captain Thomas Woods, his commanding officer, for disciplinary action, Pfc. God refused a company-punishment sentence of two hours of hard labor every day for 14 days, demanded...
...York's afternoon dailies went from a nickel to a dime in 1956, all three took circulation losses so severe that not one of them has climbed back to its old level. After a more timid price boost-from a nickel to 7?-in 1952, two of Detroit's three papers spent years recovering lost ground, and the third-ranking Times has still not recovered. Yet a fortnight ago, all three Detroit papers raised prices again, and not only got away with it but last week sold more papers (an estimated 2%) than before the boost...
...apparent key to the Detroit papers' success was that they raised prices only 1?-a strategy plotted by the Detroit Free Press's Executive Editor Lee Hills. "My theory," said Hills, "was that if you have been selling for years at 7? and you go up 1? that's just loose change, an extra penny, and the average reader doesn't care." Emboldened by their triumph-worth some $5,000 extra revenue a day to the Free Press and the News, $4,000 to the Times-Detroit publishers could foresee further steps in their painless, inch...
...Spill Baby Spoon. A "spillproof" baby training spoon, with a swivel-action grip that keeps the spoon level no matter how the baby grips it, was put on the market by the Rhonda B. Corp. of Detroit. Price...