Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crocks of Granite. In Detroit, while fire blazed in the kitchen of Frank Collins' Bar, while the building filled with smoke, while firemen dragged hoses through the barroom and water sloshed on the floor, seven steady customers refused to budge from their bar stools...
EVER since small foreign cars began to sell in the U.S. market-and ever since American Motors made its astonishing comeback with its compact car-motorists have wondered when and if the Big Three would bring out smaller cars. There were many reports out of Detroit and surreptitious pictures (left), but last week there were no longer any doubts. The Big Question: What will they look like and when will they come out? TIME'S Detroit bureau talked to dozens of auto executives, suppliers, tool and diemakers. Winnowing a mass of information, TIME this week puts together an accurate...
Before leaving Washington for a tour of Williamsburg, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Miami, Frondizi hosted a dinner for Ike and Mamie at the Argentine embassy on Q Street. Noticing Ike chuckling to himself, Frondizi asked what the joke was about. Ike replied that he was thinking of the toast he was going to give: he had decided to say it in Spanish, he explained, even though he is a miserable linguist. At dinner's end, the President stood up, announced that he was about to display his best Kansan Spanish. Kansaned he: "Brindo por el Presidente...
...independent manufacturer at a competitive disadvantage with Detroit's Big Three automakers? Not at all, answered Chairman Robert F. Black of White Motor Co. last week, as he presented the best possible evidence that his company, the nation's oldest truckmaking firm, is feeling no pain from G.M., Ford or Chrysler competition. On a record $270 million in sales, White earned $6.95 per share in 1958, almost the highest profit in its 59-year-old trucking history, in a year when overall truck sales dropped 18%. Of the profits, $3 per share were racked up in the final...
...Account. The papers played Mikoyan big. In Minneapolis the Tribune gave him as much space as it had devoted to Queen Elizabeth's 1957 visit to the U.S. In two days in Los Angeles he rated five to six columns daily from each of the four papers. When Detroit played Mikoyan's host, the News ran four front-page stories the same day, also turned over most of an inside page to detailed coverage of his stay. At week's end, the New York Times had yet to break the Mikoyan lease on Page...