Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward week's end the royal party flew to Detroit, where the King tried out G.M.'s experimental, bubble-topped Cadillac Cyclone, gave equal time to Ford and Chrysler, heard familiar cries of "Leve de Koning!" (in Flemish: "Long live the King!") from some of the city's 38,000 residents of Belgian descent. Moving fast, he did Chicago in 20 hours, ended his week in Dallas. With reserve strength needed for a dozen more cities, including visits to Disneyland, SAC headquarters and a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, Baudouin took a day off, enjoyed a relaxing round of golf...
...Detroit's Frank Lary threw a high, hard one, sent Washington's Harmon Killebrew sprawling in the dirt. Husky (6 ft., 195 Ibs.) Third Baseman Killebrew was unruffled. He rose, socked the next pitch far into the leftfield bleachers to tie the score. Next time up, he blasted a long three-run homer to bring the Senators a 7-4 victory...
...playing mostly in the minors. His fielding was sub par, and he struck out too often by going after bad pitches. In sporadic appearances with the Senators, he got into only 113 games in five years, hit a lowly .224. This season Yost was gone (in a trade with Detroit), and Manager Cookie Lavagetto tried nine other candidates before settling on Killebrew. But once the season began, Killebrew took dead aim on the fences, in the space of twelve days hit two homers in each of four games. In the field he still has a bad habit of spearing balls...
...Detroit, spring was really spring for the first time since 1955. Sales in the first ten days of May were at a near record 19,768 new cars daily, so good that Ward's Automotive Reports predicted production of 500,000 units in May, another 500,000 in June, and possibly even another in July, traditionally the tailoff month in every model year. For steel, it meant one more increase, with schedules calling for 94.1% of rated capacity and record production of 2,665,000 tons this week...
...that market; sales were up (117% in April, 60% for the year), and Pontiac was in a nip-and- tuck race with lower-priced Plymouth for third place in overall standings. On G.M.'s corporate-profit sheets, Pontiac stood second only to Chevrolet; around the G.M. building in Detroit there was quiet talk that Bunky Knudsen might well become G.M. president some day. From the start, Bill Knudsen insisted that his son be on his own. When Bunky was 14, his father told him that he could have a new (1927) Chevrolet if he would stop at the plant...