Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibility that this grim scene will become a reality some day is highly remote. But the specter of nuclear catastrophe - energetically raised by Consumerist Ralph Nader and heightened by such books as John Fuller's We Almost Lost Detroit and The Prometheus Crisis by Thomas Scortia and Frank Robinson - has seeped deep into the U.S. consciousness. A growing number of Americans are now more concerned about the consequences of nuclear accidents than they are about the need for nuclear energy. To them, the menace presented by the nation's 56 operating nuclear power plants...
...rest of the industry, made up mostly of small, regional firms, contends angrily that the P. & G. product is not a potato chip at all. Some companies, such as Detroit's Superior Potato Chips Inc., Chicago-based Jays Foods Inc., and Wise Foods of Berwick, Pa. (a division of Borden Co.), have run ads ridiculing Pringle's as an ersatz product. The Potato Chip Institute International tried to prevent snacks like Pringle's from being labeled potato chips...
Silverman said that one of the cues is "awkwardness or repeated accidents." In recent months, President Ford has fallen twice and bumped his head against a helicopter in Detroit and in a swimming pool in Jacksonville, Florida...
Michael Alan Novak Detroit...
Joseph L. Hudson Jr., chairman of the J.L. Hudson Co., Detroit's biggest department store, believes sales will even be "several percentage points" above the record-breaking pre-recession Christmas of 1973. Meyer Zolkower, regional general manager for New York-based Franklin Simon, a group of specialty shops, forecasts that the sales surge will carry into 1976 as well...