Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...composite Grable, Deanna Durbin and June Haver she wandered through an almost schizoid array of jobs-and names-on her way to wising up. She was Edna Rae Gillooly-the daughter of middle-class Irish parents, "with dashes of French, Dutch and American Indian"-until she left Detroit's Cass Technical High School; Edna Rae as a fashion illustrator's model in Texas; Keri Flynn as a dancer in a Montreal night club; Erica Dean as a model for paperback book covers in New York; and Ellen McRae in Broadway's Fair Game in 1957. Comments Burstyn...
Even after the economy recovers, efforts by Government to restrain gasoline use are bound to hurt the carmakers. There is a strong possibility that Detroit will not soon again match the average annual 3.8% increase in new-car sales that it posted over the past decade. Says Chrysler's Lynn Townsend: "I think to some extent we will see a shrinking of desire for some of the things we always wanted-those two cars per family, two color-television sets and lots of other things. We certainly as a people cannot continue piling luxury upon luxury. There...
...auto industry. He also has few rivals for outspoken candor. Other auto chiefs fairly shuddered last November when Ford warned that the industry was headed into "a depression" and called for a big tax on gasoline to finance aid to the jobless. In an interview with TIME'S Detroit bureau chief Edwin Reingold last week, Ford confessed amazement at the depth of uncertainty that he finds about the economic future, even in Detroit. "I've never seen a time like this, when nobody even has an opinion," he said. That does not apply to Ford himself, however. Among...
...outfits in the Detroit area that are hiring these days is the state Employment Security Commission, which has opened 22 temporary offices and taken on 1,000 paper shufflers to help handle the mounting claims for jobless benefits. In Detroit itself, close to 100,000 auto assemblers, cashiers, construction workers, technicians and middle-level managers-18% of the city's labor force-are unemployed. In the suburbs, thousands of others are without jobs. As Coleman Young, the black mayor of the nation's fifth largest city, put it, oh so mildly, in a recent speech, Detroit has "fallen...
...industry's disaster, however, has come as a deep shock to the city. A shroud of resignation seems draped over Detroit's huge black community; activist leaders-who have been less active in recent years than they used to be-are encountering more apathy than anger on the streets, even though unemployment among blacks may be as high...