Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was one cheerful note for Detroit's depressed inner city: in announcing the shutdowns, Chrysler said that while the giant Jefferson Avenue plant would be closed until January, it would not close permanently as had been widely feared. Chrysler said that it would keep the plant running at least through the 1975 model year, meaning mid-July. The factory employs about 5,800 people, mainly blacks. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young helped persuade Chrysler to maintain the plant, however temporarily, by noting that the city has given the company a number of property-tax breaks in recent years...
...rapid growth, market saturation, demand creation, decreasing productivity and return on capital, a fixation on policies of the past." She might add: subsequent resentment among workers and consumers, competition from abroad, desperate searches for new markets, failure to meet domestic challenges, and eventual collapse. Roths child points out that Detroit's stand on any of a number of today's issues is merely a repeat performance of the show which snuffed out previous "indestructible" industries...
...time being. But last week other proposals were being seriously considered in Washington. Among them was an automobile efficiency tax to be paid by the manufacturer. It would be designed to make gas-thirsty models uncompetitive with similar-size cars that are more economical. This would force Detroit to place a premium on fuel economy. Another proposal was for a surcharge on heavy consumption of natural gas, aimed primarily at discouraging its use in industrial boilers. At the same time the price of natural gas would be decontrolled. A windfall-profits tax on gas producers would accompany this measure...
Psychologists called Johnson a schizoid personality, but people around Detroit didn't know about that. They understood the frustration and anger that went into what he did, though, that his rage was only born out of trying to get along. Right before Johnson was tried for first degree murder, committed to an insane asylum and recommended for permanent incarceration by the judge, a reporter visited him in his cell and showed him things people had written calling him a hero. "I'm no hero," he said...
...diseases. A special bond that calls for special terms, like James Johnson's terms, and the terms Racial Scott uses in the best parts of her book. We can't share in the bond, though: we read Scott's book and get mad, and see how the people in Detroit and Buffalo and the San Joaquin valley get mad, but we can't get mad like they get mad. Scott can--she spent enough time researching her book to feel it, only she can't set it down with the kind of urgency that James Johnson Jr. set down what...