Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dead . . .' was the way a California dealer began his telegram. At least two dozen salesmen, like Hoffman, used the telephone technique, and some have phoned several times to follow up their first sales efforts. Long-distance calls have come from such widely scattered points as Lubbock, Texas, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Mt. Lebanon...
...Washington last week, the calculating machines in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics clanked out a figure that looked big and black: between mid-December and mid-January, nonfarm employment dropped by two million jobs. Examining the statistics from individual cities, the Labor Department promptly listed Detroit and Toledo as "distress" areas, i.e., entitled to special consideration in the placing of Government contracts. Across the U.S., politicians, journalists, labor leaders, economists and businessmen were arguing a pressing question: Just how bad is unemployment...
...Detroit, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther, who wants a Democratic Congress elected in November and also wants a guaranteed annual wage written into new labor contracts, has been loudly crying crisis. Last week Guy Nunn, a radio commentator sponsored by Reuther's United Automobile Workers, spoke of "bread lines," "soup kitchens," and "long lines of unemployed" in Detroit. Pressed to point them out, Nunn could find only one-at the Capuchin Charity Guild, where for years the monks have given daily handouts for anyone who shows...
...only collegiate entry in the three-day tournament, the Crimson squad faces tough opposition in the form of several of the leading teams from the country's most important squash centers. Detroit, Philadelphia, and Boston are expected to present particularly formidable line...
...Nordhoff is paid modestly by U.S. standards (about $25,000 a year). He has long since moved off his office cot and into a modern Wolfsburg house, supplied by the Volkswagen company, where his wife and two grown daughters live in a manner not much different from automakers in Detroit. He collects modern art (latest acquisition: a Renoir), serves fine wines to his guests. Up at 6:30, he drives himself to work in a Volkswagen, spends his evenings reading business correspondence and studying Volkswagen problems all over the world. While most of his traveling is on business, Nordhoff found...