Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College All-Stars. 13½-point underdogs, looked like pushovers for the World Champion Detroit Lions, but by the time the 25th annual All-Star football game (at Chicago's Soldier Field) was over, the college kids had twisted the Lions' tails in a 35-19 victory. After a slow start, the All-Stars put pressure on Lion Quarterbacks Tobin Rote and Bobby Layne, soon got their own offense going. Two Cleveland Browns draftees, Quarterback Jim Ninowski and Halfback Bob Mitchell, teamed up on spectacular pass plays of 84 and 18 yds. for touchdowns. Bobby Conrad of Texas...
This week, without contracts and with a vague strike threat in the air, furloughed Detroit workers were back on the assembly line, putting together cars for a new and hopefully better model year. Down the line with a clatter came the first 19595. Buick was slated to start first; four Chrysler divisions-Dodge, De Soto, Chrysler and Imperial-planned to tailgate close behind. Chevrolet and Plymouth were both to close out their 1958 model runs, quickly move new dies into place for 1959. Only Ford held aloof, will produce 1958 Mercurys, Fords, Lincolns and Edsels through August...
Year to Forget. As matters stood, 1958 was a year Detroit's automakers would like to forget. The worst year in recent history saw production plummet 30% from 1957's 6,212,000 cars to a projected 4,326,700 (see box). Sales were down 28% to the lowest point since...
...Detroit was through alibiing for '58. It knew all the reasons by heart: the recession, the loss of car prestige (and keeping up with the Joneses in other ways), high prices, too much chrome, those foreign cars, lack of salesmanship...
...million). Main points: The fins win; they stay, flaring upward and outward. Chrome will be a little less glittering, and hung on cars stretching wider, lower and longer than any before. ¶ The horsepower race is apparently over; increases will be generally small. ¶ That much talked about "Detroit small car?" At least a year away, though there may be a push on six-cylinder economy models...