Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moiseyev will give Americans their first close look at a major Soviet dance company. For a color preview of what Russian dance looks like when it is not poised on pointe, see Music, Soviet Pop Ballet. r RAGGED down by the auto indus-'-' try's slump, Detroit is the most recession-battered big city in the U.S. What worries thoughtful Detroiters even more than the current acute chill is a chronic malaise that afflicted the city even before the nationwide recession started, and will still be nagging it after the recession is past. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Recession...
...intersections along northwest Detroit's Eight Mile Road Negro workmen begin to gather at 6 a.m., waiting in faint hope that somebody will come by and offer a few hours' work. "It's like the numbers game," one man says. "The odds is way against you. But what else can I do? I been out of work since last fall...
WITH the auto industry braked down, Detroit is the U.S.'s most recession-ridden big city (metropolitan pop. 3,650,000). Across the nation unemployment averages 6.7% of the labor force; in Detroit the figure comes to 15.1%. Some 230,000 Detroiters are jobless, and 40,000 of them have run out of unemployment benefits, with the low-seniority, generally unskilled Negroes getting the worst of it. The monthly relief bill runs to $740,000, triple the year-ago outlay. Unemployed workers in debt for cars, furniture and appliances usually find that stores and finance companies are willing...
Widespread in hard-hit Detroit is a bleak pessimism that contrasts sharply with the city's traditional Midwestern spirit. Detroiters do not count their city as especially beautiful or rich in culture, but they treasure its name for thrust, energy, confidence. Their favorite adjective: "dynamic." For generations young men leaving farms and small towns in the Midwest and the South have headed hopefully for bustling Detroit. One of the city's most cherished residents is a relentlessly optimistic versifier, Edgar Guest...
Today discouragement lurks in the Detroit air. Says a Chrysler veteran who skidded from a full-time skilled job to part-time work on an assembly line: "I come up here from Ohio 20 years ago, and I thought this would be a good place for me. But now I'd tell a young fellow this is one of the poorest damn places in the country for your future...