Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION. Output of the nation's factories, mines and utilities rose at an annual rate of almost 9% in January. The February figure will probably be even better, because auto production rebounded from a slight dip the month before. For March, Detroit's automakers are scheduling assembly of 823,000 cars-22% more than this month and 69% ahead of March...
Other methods of concealing payoffs can go undetected for a long time. A foreign subsidiary of Burroughs Corp., the Detroit-based computer company, tacked payoffs onto sales prices and distributed some $2 million through the use of fictitious invoices. Burroughs headquarters found out about the payoffs after a Price Waterhouse audit that company chiefs ordered last year. The company will not say what officials or countries were involved. In their annual report, Burroughs officials allude to the payoffs and say that the company is taking "vigorous steps to reinforce its longstanding policy against such actions...
Daughter of a traffic-department worker at the Budd Co. in Detroit, Sheila has been speed skating since she was twelve...
...back since the Turner charges were dropped and is now operating in the black. His colleagues insist that he has mellowed somewhat since the Florida battle?and his subsequent marriage to his third wife Lynda, 28. He and British-born Lynda, a stewardess supervisor, met at a restaurant in Detroit, where Bailey was trying a case. When he first saw her she was sitting at a table with one of his associates reading a paperback novel. Bailey walked up to the table and grumped, "Forget that trash and read something worthwhile." He threw down a copy of The Defense Never...
...effort paid off-at least for the first week. Attendance in Detroit's 300 public schools averaged 83%, only 5% below normal. But whether the plan achieves its long-range goal of school integration in Detroit or-as it has in other towns-simply hastens the exodus of the city's whites remains to be seen...