Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DETROIT NEWS: Mrs. Luce is perhaps too much a compulsive wit to be the ideal diplomat. She has trouble keeping separate the many things she is and dimming her own radiance enough to see the prudent course. Yet she is certainly among the better noncareer diplomats we've had, a woman of the world, who in no sense but the Pickwickian is an "ugly American...
Most publicized new arrivals in Alaska are the "Fifty-Niners," an eager motorcade of 37 pioneers who left Detroit last March to make their homes in the new state. Beset by breakdowns and inept leadership ("Thirty minutes after we left Detroit we were lost," says a newsman who accompanied the expedition), the group has since had tough going. But vivid reporting of the Fifty-Niners' trials has deterred none of a second contingent from Michigan: some 550 men, women and children have registered at $25 a head, will set out in a 100-car train later this month...
...Detroit, if a compositor works so much as a minute into his lunch period, he gets time and a half for the whole period. A printshop employee, if not notified of a change in his shift before leaving the plant, gets $2 extra "callin" pay-plus overtime until the start of his regular shift...
Green Thumb. In Detroit, police found longtime Drug Addict J. Papp standing on the grass in the center strip of the Willow Run Expressway holding a shovel, some fertilizer, and a cigarette package full of marijuana seeds...
Baltimore 5(1st Game) New York 4 Baltimore 3 (2nd Game) New York 3 Chicago 6 (1st Game) Cleveland 5 Cleveland 5 (2nd Game) Chicago 2 Kansas City 4 Detroit 3 Washington 2 Boston...