Word: hub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HUB THEATER CENTER. Catch...
WHEN President Nixon announced his New Economic Policy last August, he made Detroit the hub of his recovery program. The Government eliminated the federal excise tax on U.S.-made cars, saving buyers an average of $200 an auto, and effectively wiped out the price advantage that foreign autos had enjoyed in American showrooms -first by slapping a surcharge on imports, later by campaigning successfully for revaluation of the German mark and Japanese yen. Since last fall the strategy has been paying off. Sales of imported cars so far this year have slumped to 14.5% of the total, down a percentage...
...numbers every day, ran lots of patriotic and sensational stories on subversives and fires, and generally catered to the city's hardcore working class people. But while the Record's editorial approach clearly came out on top in the latest merger, the transition destroyed the fibre by which Hub Area Readers identified their respective morning rags...
...Hub Area Readers will have to give the Cert's Special time to get settled before they know just what two for one has reaped. It would help readers adjust if the management did something about the new banner. Jammed in a two and a half inch space, the paper now carries the full name of both parents, an edition box, a silly little weather box with a pup and an umbrella for partly cloudy, a drenched little-leaguer for rain, and so on. Even sillier, the afternoon edition comes out with virtually the same material, but with the order...
...little investigative material outside of trying to track down, no less, the Route 2 sniper. And the editors still love the Record dialect in headlines: "U.S. Confuses Red Radar, Cripples Red Air Defense." Not to mention the non-sequiturs like "List 29 Americans Dead in British Jet Crash" or "Hub Tolls Grief for 9 Firemen...