Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whistle was blown when a Detroit salesman and school-board member named Patrick Vincent McNamara (who in 1948 shook Detroit by calling fellow members of the city council "a lot of jerks") announced that he would run for the Democratic nomination for Senator. McNamara would never have taken that step if he thought his opponent would be Soapy Williams. Within a few hours, the word began to filter through political channels: Williams, who hopes to see his name on the Democratic national ticket in 1956, had decided to seek an unprecedented fourth term as governor. The Williams-blessed candidate...
...Sports Car Club of America, membership has doubled nearly every year, and 175 like-minded groups have sprung up across the country with members driving everything from British MGs ($2,250 and up) to Jaguar I 20s ($3,345 and up) to 4.5-liter Ferraris ($15,000 and up). Detroit is obviously perking up and taking notice. The Chevrolet Corvette and the Ford Thunderbird (TIME, Feb. 2, 1953), though probably not sporty enough for European purists, are efforts to meet 1) the conditions of the U.S. highway network, and 2) the tastes and pocketbooks of a potentially good-size...
...Detroit, the Red Wings won hockey's Stanley Cup for the third time in five years, beating the Montreal Canadiens four games to three in one of the roughest play-offs in hockey history. Hero of the series: little (5 ft. 7 in.) Red Wing Forward Tony Leswick, who broke up a "sudden death" overtime period in the final game by slamming a 40-ft. screen shot into the Canadien...
...first time on a major Eastern trunk line within the next few months. The New York Central will put on 420 special flatcars designed to carry two highway trailers back-to-back, will spend about $5,000,000 for terminals in five cities (Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Boston, Detroit) to handle the new service...
DAVE BECK, boss of the big, sprawling Teamsters' Union, has set his sights on organizing Detroit's auto salesmen. Beck argues that salesmen, now paid according to dealers' profits per car, can make up to four times as much money by fighting for commissions based on the factory-delivered price of each car. Teamsters claim that 1,570 of the city's 3,000 salesmen have already paid their $10 initiation fees. Dealers hope that the move will collapse, as a similar one did some years...