Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mortar fire on Utah Beach. Lawyer Hart has eight photogenic children and an attractive, politically savvy wife. Jane Briggs Hart pilots her own Beechcraft Bonanza, flies her husband around Michigan at campaign time, has money enough as the daughter of the late Walter 0. Briggs (auto bodies, the Detroit Tigers) to afford the airplane and the campaigns...
...part of Poland), the middle son of Baron Magnus von Braun, the local state administrator. Today Wernher's older brother, Sigismund, is counselor at the German embassy in London; his younger brother, Magnus, is program-control manager of the Chrysler Corp.'s new missile division in Detroit. Last week in a comfortable Oberaudorf apartment, Baron Magnus von Braun, tanned and vigorous, celebrated his 80th birthday, marked by a four-page letter from Wernher and a gift of twelve bottles of Rhine wine. Said he, fingering his white walrus mustache in wonderment-now mixed with pride...
...Even on their home court, the Detroit Pistons had a hard time holding off the invading Syracuse Nationals, but they had a knobby-kneed, balding veteran named George Yardley, and he was more than enough. While the Pistons eked out the game, 118-113, Yardley pushed in 52 points to break this season's National Basketball Association record that he used to share with St. Louis Hawk Bob Pettit...
Despite President Shanks's clear optimism, it was still hard for most businessmen to see signs of an early upturn. Steelmen themselves, whose plants operated at less than 60% of capacity throughout much of January, expect no improvement in February. Detroit's worried auto men reported that January production of 489,357 units was down 8.5% from December and 23.7% lower than January 1957. As business cut back buying, the Federal Reserve announced that commercial and industrial loans in 94 major cities tumbled another $218 million for the week, making a total $1.8 billion reduction since...
...Detroit of the small-plane industry is Wichita, Kans., where the two biggest companies-Cessna and Beech-account for 70% of all the dollars spent on light planes. Between them, they offer customers twelve different models, priced from $7,000 to $210,000. Beech concentrates mainly on higher-priced planes, while Cessna rules the middle and lower brackets. And though Beech leads in total business, with 1957 sales of $104 million (66% military), Cessna is the world's biggest private-plane builder, with commercial sales of 2,489 planes worth $33 million (total sales: $70 million). First-quarter fiscal...