Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the money is used to buy products from the banks' clients. The bankers hope that the availability of credit will entice their clients to search for sales opportunities in the U.S.S.R. The regional banks in the deal are Cleveland's Union Commerce, Indianapolis' Indiana National, Detroit's City National, Dallas' Republic National, Connecticut's Hartford National, Memphis' First National and Providence's Industrial National...
...back to enjoy the ride to Orlando to see his son. But also at the rear were three blacks-Henry Jackson, 25, Lewis Moore, 27, and Melvin Cale, 21-who had no intention of going to Orlando. Jackson and Moore were wanted for suspicion of rape in Detroit, where they had once sued the city for $4,000,000 for alleged police brutality. Cale, Moore's half brother, had been serving time in the Tennessee State Penitentiary for grand larceny, and was a recent escapee from a work release center. The trio managed to get past Southern agents...
Courage. Airborne, the trio brandished their weapons and ordered the pilot to make a refueling stop at Jackson, Miss., then head for Detroit. Since embarrassment helps keep people in line, the three also forced the male passengers to strip to their underwear. The hijackers soon broadcast their ambitious demand: $10 million in cash. Southern Airways placed $500,000 aboard an aircraft and dispatched it to Detroit in hopes of a settlement. Despite the efforts of Detroit officials to talk the hijackers into landing, they made the pilot shoot across Lake Erie to Cleveland's Hopkins Airport. Meanwhile, the passengers...
THURSDAY. Thanksgiving Day Parades. CBS will cover four parades throughout the morning Gimbles in Philadelphia: J.I. Hudson in Detroit. Eaton's Santa Claus Parade in Toronto and Macy's in New York. NBC will stick to three hours of Macy's. CH. 4, 7, 9 a.m. Color-Live...
...will have a private firm process some of its refuse; Waste Management, Inc., will compact and dump into its own landfill up to 1,000 tons of garbage a day. Other cities that have turned over all or part of their garbage business to private hands include Boston, Omaha, Detroit, Dallas and Charleston, S.C. Indeed, only bureaucratic lethargy and union opposition prevent more cities from contracting with private companies. When Milwaukee, for instance, closed its antiquated city incinerators and hired an independent company to handle waste disposal, it incurred union wrath because 260 municipal sanitation workers were laid...