Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facts of employment in the automobile industry do not bear out the cries of doom. Of a total labor force of 1,510,000 in the Detroit area, 121,000 are out of jobs. This is less than the level accepted as "normal" during the last eight years. Ford and General Motors are both employing more men today than a year ago. Chrysler employment is down (as is Studebaker at South Bend); Packard has been retooling. Auto sales have shown signs of an upward turn...
...palace, between ceremonies, Magloire puts aside fancy dress and operates as the kind of detail-cracking, eleven-hour-a-day executive that any topflight Detroit industrialist could understand. He rises in the dawn cacophony of his capital's unbelievably numerous roosters, and hops on an exercise machine. After a rubdown, he breakfasts in bathrobed comfort on fruit and cafe au lait. Then, in a suite filled with alabaster busts, stuffed pink cranes, Empire clocks and pictures of himself and other Haitian heroes, the President reads reports and mail, takes a thoughtful second look at work saved over from...
...state governors were among the 300 officials, psychiatrists and welfare workers who sat down in Detroit last week for a two-day conference on the growing problem of mental illness. When it was over, Psychiatrist Karl Menninger summed up: "Nothing new has come out of this conference. But the significant thing is that the governors are now telling the psychiatrists what the psychiatrists have been telling them for 20 years. If they can now go home and convince their legislatures, the people will respond...
Ford, which hates to take a back seat to Chevrolet, this week showed off its answer to Chevrolet's Corvette sports car. On view at Detroit's Auto Show is the company's first production sports car, a handsome racy-looking convertible called the Thunderbird...
...slightly?5%. 5. Down sharply. 65. The area where the 1953 volume of building was larger than the combined 1952 total of Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Denver, Baltimore and Boston is: 1. Miami. 4. Pacific Northwest. 2. Los Angeles...