Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much longer are we going to keep putting the national-defense cart before the horse? America's first line of defense is no longer Europe. It is in Detroit, Pittsburgh. Washington, New York, in the air over the North Pole. And Europe's first line of defense is in the same place. The corollary is that the best thing we could possibly do for Europe is to make America secure...
...always liked to draw, spotted an easier act in the show: the artist on stage who drew pictures of customers or famous people on request. After a successful try at this, Guy decided to leave the stage, get another factory job and go to night classes at the Detroit School of Fine Arts...
...favorite philosophy: "If you don't like your job, for heaven's sake quit it since you only live once." Result: Guy took off for a year's work with his brother in lum ber camps along the Columbia River. Woods man Rowe returned to Detroit to finish art school, marry a fellow student, and make a name for himself in the New York community of free-lance artists...
...overwhelming vote of their stockholders, the only two remaining independent automakers last week gave up their independence. In Detroit, Packard stockholders voted 89.9% to join forces with Studebaker; at the same time in Wilmington, Del., Studebaker stockholders voted 99% to merge with Packard. The new company (official name: Studebaker-Packard Corp.) will have a full line of low-to high-priced cars for the competitive battle ahead. Its combined assets: $251 million. But Studebaker-Packard's biggest asset is the opportunity to compete better by pooling the resources of the two old independents...
Into the Race. This fall, Packard will replace its ancient Detroit operation with two new plants as modern as any in the industry. The brand-new V-8 engine for Packard's 1955 cars will be made at a $47 million plant in Utica, Mich., ten miles outside Detroit; the bodies, formerly made by Briggs, will now be made by Packard itself at a plant recently leased from Chrysler, thus saving a substantial amount of money that otherwise would go to subcontractors...