Detroit Jobless Rosters Reach 130000 Amid Defense Shifts
Detroit faces a broad unemployment crisis as defense production cuts hit the auto industry. Roughly 430000 jobless statewide and city figures reflect factory changeovers, with leaders demanding material relaxations or faster contracts. Stories highlight workers Ale and Fortune, ages 32 and 50, struggling to find work after injuries and age barriers, living on meager unemployment. The article notes no bread lines yet, but cites rising crime risk and social strain as automaker layoffs ripple through the metro area.
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Detroit
Motor City
Washington
Walter Reuther
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Sen. Ferguson
R.mich
Michigan
Ferguson
Jess
Sam Cambrosia
James Fortune
Briggs Manufacturing Co
Fortune
Jean
Cambrosia
America
Chevrolet Sales Quiz Set for Lakewood Luncheon
More than 100 Chevrolet salesmen from District Four covering Santa Monica to Long Beach will attend a noon Tuesday luncheon and quiz on 1952 models at Lakewood Country Club. Hosts are Joe Oakes and Bruce Jermyn of Chevrolet Long Beach.
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Chevrolet
Santa Monica
Long Beach
Lakewood Country Club
Joe Oakes
Bruce Jermyn
Chet Marshall
Los Angeles
Jack Murray
Bill Kuss
J. W. Steele
Long Beach Man Returns After Two Years in Arabia
Long Beach resident H L Thompson 30 returns home after a two year stay in Saudi Arabia with a cosmopolitan itinerary including trips to India and Europe. Assigned to Dhahran by Arabian-American Oil Co. he served six years in the Navy then worked as aircraft dispatcher for Aramco, observing air conditioned housing and facilities for employees.
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Long Beach
Arabia
Saudi Arabia
India
Europe
H. L. Thompson
Helen L. Moffitt
Linden Ave
Dhahran
Oji Co
Thompson
Poly High School
Navy
South Pacific
Fleet Intelligence Office
Aramco
Family of Four Scrapes By On Low Incomes
In a cramped home, dark haired Tere sa, 28, provides for a family of four including Angelo, 47%4, and Grandmother Cambrosia. Mrs Cambrosia runs four punch presses at a small parts plant and earns about 45 dollars weekly take home, barely covering a 45 dollar monthly mortgage plus food and bills. The husband advertises welding and fast service on a painted sign outside, hoping for odd jobs, but the income remains limited.
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Teresa
Angelo
Cambrosia
Punch
Austin car agency opens in Long Beach area
Dick Deeble launches a new venture in Long Beach with Consolidated Motors Anaheim Street and Atlantic Avenue as the base. Verfon Risley acts as manager while the shop offers sales and service of Austins and other English cars. Priestly and Rathmill, both British born, join as mechanics amid a growing market for American and English auto parts.
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Pick Deeble
Consolidated Motors
Jim Priestly
Dick Rathmill
Marjorie Baroda
Fern Culver
Vernon Risley
Anaheim St. S
Atlantic Ave
Austin Car
Dick Deeble
Long Beach
Fon Risley
Austin
Beach
Los Angeles
Austin Fact
England
Priestly
Austin and
Kaiser Virginian and Vagabond debut at Long Beach showroom
Long Beach Kaiser-Frazer Co introduces the 1952 Kaiser Virginian and Henry J Vagabond at 1235 American Ave showroom. New Continental spare tire carriage boosts trunk capacity, with Virginian offered in two and four door styles and Vagabond in four and six cylinder options.
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Long Beach
Kaiser-Frazer Co
American Ave
Kaiser
Auto-Lite Honors Firms in Family
Auto-Lite in Paramount hosts 13 weekly customer days saluting auto makers. First showing features 1952 Packard models at the 7701 E. Compton Blvd plant with 25,000 employees nationwide taking part. Paramount schedule lists Plymouth Jan 16 Hudson Jan 23 Dodge Jan 30 Willys Overland Feb 6 Chrysler Feb 13.
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Electric Auto- Lite Co
Paramount
Motor Car Brown
Pacific Coast
Packard
Auto- Lite
E. Compston Blvd
Auto-Lite
Motor Car Indust
Plymouth
Hudson
Dodge
Willys Overland
Chrysler
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Ford
By Felix B, Wold
Oldsmobile
J. P. Wolfram
General Motors
Exposition Auditorium
San Francisco
Army Ordnance Corps
Fontiac
Pontiac
Mich
L. W. Ward
Ward
Karl T. Compton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Compton
Corporation of Mit
National Military Establishment
Lucius D. Clay
Gen. Clay
Continental Can Co
John L. Pratt
B. F. Goodrich Co
Federal Trade Commission
United States
Compary
Marine Glass Co
Scott-Woodard-Scott SR. Glass For
Long Seach Builders Exchange Cor
14Th
Magnolia
Fasamatics
Oe & Packard
Packar
Packard Long Beach CO
Long Beach, Calif
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