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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit's Brodhead Naval Armory last week, after a round of campaigning for his party's candidates in home-state Illinois, went Adlai Stevenson, titular leader of the Democratic Party. In his Detroit speech were the usual Stevenson quips and quibbles, but also there-and available for Democrats everywhere to hang onto-was a hard and fast line: 1) the Republican Administration, on its record, has permitted the domestic economy to become stagnant and has caused the U.S. to lose prestige abroad, and 2) only a Democratic Congress can make things right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Democratic Argument | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

JOHN KNIGHT, publisher of four dailies (Chicago Daily News, Akron Beacon-Journal, Detroit Free Press, Miami Herald), in his "Editor's Notebook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS WOULD TRY TO WRECK IKE | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

Service Entrance. In Detroit, police began looking for a man who smashed a 4-by-6-in. window of the Dearborn Beer Distributors and stole nine cases of beer -bottle by bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...bestseller, was brought out in November 1948 with a 67-h.p. engine* that proved underpowered for the weight of the car. It sold well until the sellers' market disappeared. Then French Ford began to lose money. Jack Reith and a team of experts were sent over from Detroit early last year to put the company on its feet. They cut labor and materials costs, produced 20,338 passenger cars in 1953 and converted a $2,000,000 loss in 1952 to a profit of $1,000,000 last year. Reith has already rolled up earnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Ford into Simca | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

Easy Popper. Pre-seasoned popcorn, in an aluminum-foil package that can be popped by putting the pan-shaped container on the stove, has been put on the market by Top Pop Products Co. of Detroit and Taylor-Reed Corp. of Glenbrook, Conn. The foil expands as the corn pops, keeps the popped corn hot for an hour. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Sep. 27, 1954 | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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