Word: detroits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
About then the Secretary got an invitation to talk to the Detroit Economic Club. In the past, aspiring Davids have found that their stones merely bounced off the skulls of those Goliaths who make cars. In that den, lions get eaten by the club members...
Brock persisted. He assembled skeptical experts in February, hung on his wall the Detroit News cartoon showing him as a heavenly messenger hovering with tire and spark plug and saying, "Don't just stand there! Invent something!" And the realities of oil began to change minds. Hundreds of engineers and scientists gathered and debated the prospects. They made out a report that went to the White House, concluding that major breakthroughs in engines, fuels and structures were possible...
Here and there one can hear the experts mutter that maybe by 1990 we can have mass production of clean, comfortable, safe cars that average 50 or even 75 miles to the gallon. History is working for Adams' challenge. Enough people around Detroit remember Henry the First's caustic reminiscence in the 1920s. Said Ford: "All the wise people demonstrated conclusively that the new gas engine could not compete with steam...
...Detroit has enough trouble without being caught scoffing at an idea that could change the nature of the city's underlying industry...
William R. Grant, education writer for the Detroit Free Press, and Michael J. Kirk, public affairs director for Seattle television station KCTS will also spend next year at Harvard, as will Lynda M. McDonnel, a business and labor reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, and Judith Nichol, Maryland editor of the Washington Post...