Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From Detroit Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold...
Because of a natural-gas shortage, public schools closed in Kansas City, Mo., and may be cut to three days a week in Dayton. Too much demand caused electric voltage to be reduced by 5% in Detroit and other parts of Michigan, which dimmed lights almost imperceptibly and assured that everyone got some current. As an added misery, the wells ran dry in the farm hamlet of Princeton, Kans., and people had to truck in water. But much of it was frozen, and some citizens had to use snow to flush their toilets...
Businessmen were reassured by Carter's Cabinet choices. Said a top General Motors Corp. executive: "Whatever decisions he makes, he will at least have the advice of people who know our problems." Moreover, the Midwestern economic outlook is improving. Detroit hopes to sell close to 10 million cars and 3.5 million trucks this year, thus putting to work many of the 39,000 unemployed auto workers. In turn, the steel and tire industries are heading for a good year, and the prosperity will trickle down to the rest of the region's economy. Said Eugene Swearingen, chairman...
...Glasgow, he came to the U.S. at six. Though his electrician father managed to work on and off through the Depression, Fraser recalls hopping aboard slow-moving railroad gondolas to knock off a few chunks of coal to carry home for heating. After graduating from high school in Detroit, he went to work at Chrysler's De Soto plant and, faithful to his father's socialist leanings, quickly drew notice as a union agitator. By age 26, he was president of his local, where he tried to boost membership by serving beer; at 30, he was an international...
Fraser has been highly active in Michigan politics and was once asked by prominent Democrats to run for the Senate; he declined. With his wife Winifred, a Ph.D. who teaches psychology at Detroit's Wayne State University, he lives in a small town house in a downtown Detroit urban-renewal area. He has two children from a previous marriage, is an inveterate reader and intermittent balletgoer...