Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...REED Detroit...
...Overvalued School. Another trouble, said Rear Admiral H. G. (Nautilus) Rickover. in Detroit, is the "misconception of the worth of the American high school. We have always overvalued it. It comes out that we have many more children in high school and in college than [Europeans] have in secondary schools and universities, and this makes us proud. But all of these comparisons are meaningless, because the European secondary school graduate has learned more than most of our college graduates; and as to the high school diploma, the less said about it the better...
...When he heard he had been traded from the Kansas City Athletics to the Detroit Tigers as part of a 13-player shuffle, onetime Yankee Billy Martin sounded off with his customary ballfield belligerence. "They say six clubs were after me," said Billy. "If I was key man of the swap, I want a piece of the profit." Even though Billy stands small chance of collecting any cash, Detroit General Manager John Mc-Hale happily egged him on. "Keep talking," he told Billy-for an infield holler guy is just what the lackluster Tigers need...
Local Harvard clubs will sponsor concerts by the Band in Chicago, Detroit, Rochester, Syracuse, and New Canaan, Conn. Profits from ticket sales will go in to the Band's general fund. Local club members will provide publicity for the concerts and lodgings for players...
...said railroaders, is part of a gentlemen's agreement with the Pennsylvania Railroad, which runs 20 Baltimore-New York round trips daily. In return for B. & O.'s stepping off the tracks, the Pennsy will pare down its own passenger service on the Baltimore-Washington and Cleveland-Detroit routes, where it is a major competitor...