Word: motor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to a Ford Motor Co. insider, rumors of a separation between Henry Ford II and his Italian-born second wife Cristina, whom he married in 1965, "were getting to be so well known that even gas-station attendants in Grosse Pointe were talking about...
...Cass Corridor--one of the nation's most crime-infested districts--several middle-class neighborhoods, and Bloomfield Hills, the nation's wealthiest per capita suburb. On a typical ride down Woodward the motorist is not likely to see buses; public transportation has never been a popular cause in the Motor City...
Nowhere do the vicissitudes of the nation's business cycle show more starkly than in the Motor City and its environs. In times of economic hardship, unemployment and crime skyrocket; in times of prosperity, workers of different races and backgrounds, thrown together on assembly lines in a one-industry region, vent their frustrations in racial hatred and violence...
...story tower the men who built Detroit and their successors will have a bird's eye view of their city and the city across the river, and then maybe will be able to see why in 1974 there were only 25 murders in Windsor, and 801 in the Motor City...
...Road, however, Kennedy ran into trouble. He slowed when he saw a car approaching. It turned out to be Deputy Sheriff Look, instead of his cousin. When Kennedy saw the police uniform, he turned down Dyke Road. There, parking on the left side of the bridge and leaving the motor running, he and Mary Jo waited. When a car appeared (this time actually Gargan and Markham) Kennedy panicked, believing it was the police and afraid of being caught in a compromising situation. He left to hide in the woods. Mary Jo, unfamiliar with the car, tried to turn around...