Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What about the auto worker in Detroit? Has he, for example, any reason for optimism...
Local coverage is worse. Stories tend to deal with economic distress largely in terms of symptoms, local color and superficial how-to guides. The Detroit Free Press, to its credit, recently supplemented coverage of auto industry layoffs with a useful story on how to navigate the maze of local bureaucracies disbursing unemployment benefits. But many papers flop even in such routine backyard reporting. During the fall, for example, the Atlanta Constitution did several stories on layoffs in auto plants elsewhere, but delayed in mentioning whether factories in its own circulation area would be hit (they soon were). Its sister paper...
...recovery, when it comes, is likely to be slow and sluggish at best. Many industry observers predict a generally flat year ahead, with no really significant upturn until August or September. The range of forecasts for total domestic sales is wide: Wall Street Analyst David Eisenberg believes that Detroit will sell no more than 6.5 million autos in 1975, but General Motors Chairman Thomas A. Murphy talks of a 9-million-car year. Though that would be well short of 1973's alltime high of 9.7 million new cars, it would be comfortably ahead of 1958, when only...
...months the automakers stuck to these increases in the face of falling sales on the argument that the rises represented only a partial catch-up with past hikes in the cost of labor and materials. But now Detroit's price wall is beginning to crack. This week Chrysler is launching an unprecedented "Car Clearance Carnival" that industry experts describe as one of the most intriguing Detroit sales experiments in years...
...year later, Pittenger became associate director of athletics, and Matthews hoped to succeed him. But Harvard hired a replacement from Detroit. Matthews was hurt but not bitter, and he devoted himself to a massive re-designing of all the office's publications, from football programs to statistical brochures. When his Michigan boss left a year later, Matthews had no trouble getting...