Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michigan: Democrat Patrick Vincent McNamara, 60, outdrew Senator Ferguson at the polls on the coattails of popular Governor "Soapy" Williams and with the help of unemployment in the automobile industry. A hearty Irishman with a toothy smile, McNamara is a member of the Detroit board of education, president of a local pipefitters' union and customers' contact man for a construction firm...
Remington Rand's electronic calculator, Univac (see RADIO & TV). But the Detroit Times did better with Univac's cousin UDEC (Unitized Digital Electronic Computer). By carefully feeding UDEC the vote from key districts, the Times predicted that Democrat Patrick McNamara would win over Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, even though Ferguson's defeat was not certain until eight or nine hours later...
...Accepted: Newport News (Va.) Daily Press, Inc., Houston's Maytag Aircraft Corp. Rejected: Jonesboro (Ark.) Grain Drying Cooperative, the Greenwich (Conn.) Gas Co., two Memphis supermarkets, a Houston real- estate firm, a Hannibal (Mo.) trucking company, Detroit's Wilson-Oldsmobile, an auto dealer...
WEST COAST AUTO BUYERS will soon pay up to $160 less a car under a new pricing and delivery system put into effect by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. To cut the price spread between Detroit and the West Coast, the companies will tack higher transportation costs on cars sold within 1,200 miles of Detroit, use the additional revenue to lower freight to more distant markets...
Standstill. In Detroit, charges of illegal overnight parking against Anthony Azoury were dismissed after he told the traffic referee: "I couldn't move it because the night before, someone stole three wheels...