Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fairdale High School; many demonstrators parked their cars on the narrow two-way street leading to the school, preventing the eight buses filled with black students from leaving. The screaming crowd threw cups and empty soft-drink cans at the buses before police came to the rescue. A Ford Motor Co. truck plant shut down after 38% of the 1,500-man work force stayed out to show their opposition to busing...
DeMascio argued plausibly that almost any large-scale busing scheme would yield only "negligible desegregation results" in the Motor City. Last year the Supreme Court ruled out "cross-district" busing of students between the city and the mostly white suburbs; thus limited to the city proper, busing could not do much more than merely shuffle students from one predominantly black school to another. The judge thought either plan would entail a massive effort, including the purchase of hundreds of buses, to little real effect. He called for new proposals that would accept any school with a black enrollment of more...
...airport was totting up by the seconds the autos manufactured in 1975: 3,835,001; 3,835,002. But deeper in the city the scene turned bleak: shuttered stores, decaying neighborhoods, jobless men wandering the streets. The contrast seemed particularly telling to the travelers, who had come to the Motor City for a conference on Christian responses to the inequities in modern society. The focus of their discussions at Detroit's rambling old Sacred Heart Seminary was a radical new mode of Christian thought: the theology of liberation...
Layoffs Reduced. In the bellwether auto industry, where sales have been showing erratic improvement, Ford Motor Co. President Lee Iacocca said last week that the number of Ford workers on indefinite layoffs had been reduced to 14,800 from a February peak of 35,000. He added: "We hope to get it down to zero as soon as the market recovers. Most will be back by next year." To economists in Michigan, that was industry pep talk. They note that Michigan's slight July improvement in unemployment (down to 14.2% from 15% in June) was due in part...
Parkhurst also treats advertisers with truculent disdain. For example, he refuses to accept Ford Motor Co. ads because "they made a crummy truck," and both a Union Oil Co. division and White Motor Corp. have in the past pulled out their advertising after he rapped them. He also has to pay for lawyers to protect himself against an average of some $25 million in pending libel suits (he has won seven and never lost), and to maintain an electric gate at his shabby Hollywood offices to guard against midnight raiders and subpoena servers. Says one staffer: "He could be taking...