Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have spent most of my life in Michigan," said Ford, as he stepped off the plane in Detroit last week. If that was one of the most superfluous remarks the President ever made, it was also a sign of his desperation. He was pleading plaintively, almost pathetically for the home folks' support in what could be the most crucial contest so far in his political career. After a string of five primary losses to Reagan, climaxed by a defeat in Nebraska last week, he needs a victory in Michigan as well as Maryland to slow the challenger...
...Harry, he did not turn his listeners on much. His style was reassuring but plodding and predictable. Sometimes defending his record, sometimes sounding almost as anti-Washington as Jimmy Carter, the President often seemed to say the right thing the wrong way. Earlier, at a shopping center in a Detroit suburb, the audience started to drift off as soon as he began talking...
...Cesar Gutierrez, 1970, Detroit...
...million in the opening three months of 1975. Outside the auto industry, profits of electronic and electrical-equipment firms on average have more than doubled; some apparel and textile firms are showing increases of more than 300%; profits in the glass business (whose fortunes are closely tied to Detroit's) seem to be up 150% or so. Even railroads and some airlines are showing modest gains. Metals producers are lagging: U.S. Steel's profits fell 46.5% in the first quarter and Bethlehem's 64.6%, while Anaconda suffered a $4.7 million loss. But even they should do better...
...this year is turning testy. The walkout will not immediately hurt national production, but a long strike could damage the recovery, and a high settlement could pump up now-subsiding inflation. Unhappily, the nation is almost sure to get one or the other outcome, if not both. As one Detroit Uniroyal worker put it, "We settled short last time, and now business is booming and we gotta get ours...