Word: flints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thinks he works about as hard as any man should, trying to get Chrysler back to 20% of the automobile market. "But most every Monday morning when I'm shaving out home in Bloomfield Hills," says Colbert, "I hear old Red Curtice's airplane flying in from Flint. And every Friday night when I'm home and tired and walking my dog, I hear Red Curtice flying home again." When he is in Michigan, Curtice spends most of his week nights not in his home in Flint but in the nine-room suite in the G.M. Building...
...came out of Petrieville, Mich. He likes to watch the fights and The $64,000 Question on television, read the papers, hunt, watch the Detroit Tigers (the night games only). He puffs casually on Luckies, likes his Scotch and soda strong and unstirred. His idea of Saturday fun in Flint is a run through the Buick plant in the morning and a poker game with his City Club cronies in the afternoon. He lives in a relatively modest red brick corner house, with a three-car garage. In the garage: his wife's Buick Roadmaster convertible, daughter Dorothy Anne...
Safe at Home. Flint is the world's most General Motorized city, and it says more about the state of the nation today than volumes of statistics. To begin with, the tricked-up Buick of the highest-salaried man in the U.S. is hardly noticeable among the bright new Buicks and Chevrolets along Flint's main streets. Flint is the home of the main Buick and Chevrolet plants, the Fisher Body, AC Spark Plug and Ternstedt Divisions (G.M. auto hardware...
There is a job in the Flint area for virtually anyone who wants one. Of a work force of 135,400, some 86,700 are employed by G.M. The 83,000 hourly employees draw wages averaging $109 a week-with some skilled oldtimers at the forge plants earning $10,000 a year. Flint has an automobile for every 2.8 persons, v. a nationwide average of one for every 3.7. Nearly 80% of the residents own their own homes, and 80% of the homes have television (even though 15-or 20-ft. aerials must be stuck on rooftops to pick...
...with the Gun (Goldwyn Jr.; United Artists) has all the splendid cardboard heroics of the classic western. Sheridan City is so terrorized by a villainous rancher named Dade Holman that the panicky citizens hire flint-eyed, flint-faced Robert Mitchum to civilize the community. Inside of ten minutes, four of Holman's badmen are being measured for coffins. Casually holstering his guns, Town-Tamer Mitchum suggests burying at least two of them out on the wild prairie, because "Sheridan City's too small to have such a big cemetery...