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The article looks at the paper conservation program in public offices in Michigan as of June 2, 1951. The program was conducted by the state government and was backed by the Kellogg Foundation, wherein it cut 149,000 U.S. dollars in costs. The program consisted of two projects, the paper-work control and record-keeping control, wherein the former 35 forms were integrated into 16 new forms and the latter project that managed 75 form records saved 70,000 U.S. dollars.

The article discusses the six-and-one-half-month-old labor strikes against "Detroit News" and "Detroit Free Press" in Michigan. It reports that a dispute over higher wages between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and "Detroit News" had begun the local newspapers' shutdown. The owners of the "interim" newspaper "Daily Express" and nine former "Detroit News" district managers have been charged with, among others, unlawfully appropriating secret lists of "Detroit News" subscribers. The Detroit, Michigan public is said to take the strike in stride.

The article mentions the extensive cutting of poplar in Upper Michigan which triggered the paper mils to stop buying poplar to encourage the cutting of other pulpwood.

The article reports on the use of a machine called Singit by "Detroit Times" in Michigan.

The article offers information on the expansion program of Wyandotte Chemical Co. in Michigan. The company is planning to flourish in the field of synthetic-organics under the supervision of Robert B. Semple. It had first started the production of organic chemicals in 1947, when it made a glycol antifreeze by breaking down petroleum.

The article discusses the highlights of the Industrial Finishing Exposition held in Detroit, Michigan in June 1947 and sponsored by the American Electroplaters' Society. Included in the exhibits were automatic equipment where the plating process, handling of parts being plated and final part polishing are pushbutton-controlled. Also included in the exhibit was an automatic polishing and buffing equipment with buffing compounds applied mechanically, new materials for racks and safety equipment. The show's profits will be applied to research.

The article reports on the military recruiting tactics adopted by city department of street railways in Detroit, Michigan in an effort to obtain needed motormen, conductors and bus drivers.

The article focuses on the success of the Chevrolet Motor Co. Division of General Motors Corp. in Detroit, Michigan. It states that the Chevrolet's production and retail sales records represent its dominance in the automotive industry since the 1930s and its ability to utilize its resources effectively. It states that it has 34 plants across U.S. cities, utilizing 40.4 million square feet. Moreover, building cars that will appeal in new and used car markets is their business strategy.

The article offers information on the fueling of the Enrico Fermi power plant, a fast breeder reactor, near Detroit, Michigan. It states that with the start of the commercial production of atomic power, the reactor will help reduce the cost of atomic generation of electricity. It discusses the possible production of 200 megawatts of electricity by the fission of uranium-235 atoms, the use of plutonium as fissionable material, and its high thermal efficiency due to the use of sodium coolant.

The article reports that the newspaper strike did not influence the 1955 Christmas sales of department stores in Detroit, Michigan. It states that two department stores passed handbills at their entrances while radio and television retail advertising increased. It notes that the newspaper "Detroit Shopping News" published three papers a week during the Christmas season. Meanwhile, Detroit merchants note that shoppers visit store during the season regardless of advertising.

The article reports on the increase in the number of high school students who take full-time and part-time jobs as reflected by the growth in the quantity of job permits issued to workers in the wholesale and retail businesses in Michigan.

The article reports on a type of labor black marketing in Detroit, Michigan that has resulted in widespread wage ceiling violations. According to War Manpower Commission state director Edward L. Cushman, about 100 of 150 engineering firms in the state have actually practiced labor brokerage. These firms have a double advantage over companies making direct recruitment because they may pay employees a higher wage than those doing production work.

Two photographs of drawings on a paper pad found at a conference table in Sheraton Hotel in Detroit, Michigan are presented.

The article discusses the regional income of U.S. in February 1951. It states that the income of Kansas City region in Kansas, increased by seven percent due to the growth in industrialization and farming. It also mentions a poor growth in the income of St. Louis region, Michigan. Not much growth in the income of coal-mining regions of Alabama and Eastern Tennessee has been recorded.

This article reports on the booming business climate that is being experienced by the automobile industry in Detroit, Michigan in 1949, despite the perilous future that it faces due to expected strikes. It explains why Detroit is considered to be the car manufacturing hub of the nation, and how it acquired that status. It then presents the companies and the people who are behind Detroit's success. The article also comments on why the one-industry nature of Detroit may make it susceptible to industry problems, such as workers' strikes.

The article discusses how Michigan businessmen are trying to comply with the state's business receipts tax law. According to the author, one of the main sources of controversy about Michigan's tax law rises from the fact that the burden on any company or individual businessman is dependent on what percentage of the receipts comes from sales within the state and how much comes from outside the state.

The article reports on the new environmental efforts of such companies as General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. to fight stream pollution in the U.S. as of May 1949. According to General Motors' LA Danse, the industry should not allow the pollution of streams. Ford Motor's project, meanwhile, was constructed with the cooperation of the Michigan Stream Control Commission. The opinion of Harold A. Kemp of the District of Columbia on the issue is also cited.

The article reports on the current labor relations at Packard Motor Car Co. in Detroit, Michigan. As stated, its United Auto Workers (C.I.O) has put forward its grievances in an aggressive manner.They have certain labour issues which needs immediate attention like issues related with their health, safety and education. Other companies like Martin Dodge & Co. is also facing such issues.

Information about several papers discussed at the annual meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in Detroit, Michigan in January 1948 is presented. Topics include the challenging basis for the selection of automotive steels, the advantage of low-alloy, high-tensile steels and the characteristics of motor fuels. The meeting featured several automotive engineers including W. E. Jominy, C. L. Altenburger and R. F. Geller.

The article offers information on productivity unemployment which affected auto workers in Detroit, Michigan in 1958. It mentions that investment in modern equipment and techniques has increased productivity but decreased manpower which resulted to the layoffs of many auto workers. In December 1958, almost 200,000 auto workers or 13% of the auto industry's labor force were unemployed in Detroit.

The article discusses the ruling by a Michigan state court that allowed Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co. to directly sell natural gas to the Ford Motor Co. Objections were raised through the state's Public Service Commission by Michigan Consolidated Gas Co., who has exclusive rights to the gas business in Detroit, Michigan. Hoping to maintain its position, Consolidated plans on building a new pipeline, with permission from the U.S. Federal Power Commission, to meet increasing gas requirements.

The article reports on the move of the Foreman's Association of America (FAA) to end its strike that had caused production stoppage and closure of various war plants in Detroit, Michigan. It notes that the strike demonstrated the strong position of foremen who called for organizing the industry's supervisory employees. The cancellation of the strike came after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that the Wagner act governing the formation of unions was not applicable to supervisors.

The article focuses on the pollution problem caused by industrial waste at Lake Michigan. Concern over the industrial complex along the southern basin has been raised by pollution control authorities. About 100 million U.S. dollars will be spent by companies to meet the control requirements of the state. Representative John C. Kluczynski has called on the Army Corps of Engineers to explain why the engineers continue to dump contaminated dredgings from the Indiana Harbor Canal into the lake. INSET: Ultimatum in the West: Clean up or close down.

The article discusses the results of a survey on smoking habits in Ann Arbor, Michigan undertaken by the Survey Research Center (SRC) of the University of Michigan.

The article reports on the increase of sales tax approved by the voters of Michigan to solve the dilemma of thier anemic general fund.

The article reports on the decision by the Wayne Country Circuit Court in Michigan in August 1957 to order the release of the one million dollar welfare fund of the auto company Kaizer-Frazer (K-F) to finance the full-scale health program for former K-F workers.

The article offers information on the mobile laboratory unit of U.S. automobile company Ford Motor Co. for on-the-spot steel analysis in River Rouge, Michigan.

The article reports that the naturalization bureau of Detroit, Michigan keeps on doing a rushing business wherein there have been 10,000 registrations for first and second papers in the last 10 days of May 1940 and another 25,000 inquiries.

The article forecasts a decline in prices of automobiles manufactured in Detroit, Michigan for 1932 attributed to the lower cost of materials and parts, elimination of extravagances, more economical production, and the conviction that cheap market will exist for some time.

The article focuses on the Retired Autoworkers Organization (RAO), a pension union consisting of 4,000 retired auto laborers in Detroit, Michigan. RAO sought to grow beyond Detroit, Michigan, have proactive political activity, and persuade union authorities to call for better pension and welfare benefits from employers. RAO was established to fulfill goals including expanding company pensions, extending insurance benefits, and change the retirement system into a voluntary one.

The article reports on the entry of some automobile manufacturers into the real estate development business in Michigan, including the Northfield Hill community project of Chrysler in Troy, an urban complex development in Dearborn by Ford, and the urban renewal project of General Motors in Pontiac.

The article predicts the shortage of automotive steel in the U.S. that would result from the oversold steel market as demand will be over capacity when Detroit, Michigan takes all its quota of orders. A factor that will determine the car production in Detroit and which will also govern steel orders is the rate at which new cars sell. According to steelmen, there is a need to return to a seven-million-plus auto year to be able to develop an uncontrollable steel demand. Inventory shows that Detroit has not completed reduction of steel stocks.

The article discusses a process called Cardomatic milling, a new die making method developed by Parsons Industries Inc. of Traverse City, Michigan. John Parsons developed a punched-card die making that controls the intricate tool movements of a contour milling machine. The article also mentions that the actual manufacture of the new machines was being done by Snyder Tool & Engineering Co. of Detroit, Michigan.

The article focuses on the mechanization of the plant of Ford Motor Co. to get the work that does not require thinking and dexterity done amid tight labor market in Detroit, Michigan. It created the Automation Department under its production-engineering division to study production and handling components with little manual labor involved and design devices that can do the work. As a result, nearly 1,000 of its workers will be transferred from manual jobs to more productive work. Among the automation equipment it uses are sheet feeders and unloaders.

The article presents photographs featuring the airfreight delivery of Ford Motor Co. automobile parts, including the receipt of an urgent product order for gravel deflectors at the Rouge plant of the company in Dearborn, Michigan, the confirmation of the order through a radio telephone call to Jack Gallagher of the Whiteway trucking line, and the loading of product cargo to a Meteor Air Transport plane.

The article offers information on five different dehydrated vegetables which will be produced by the Department of Agriculture's Farm Credit Administration and the National Dehydrators Association in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It mentions that 16 different dehydrators will produce vegetables including white potatoes, onions, and beets. It informs that these vegetables will be marketed under the common brand name Hy-Rated and posses the labels of the association's approved quality seal.

The article focuses on the insurance of employees of member companies of the Michigan Manufacturers Association in Michigan. It offers various advantages over orthodox group insurance, especially in the higher amounts of individual coverage available and the spread of mortality experience. The insurance is limited to supervisory employees and executives. The Michigan program is underwritten by Travelers Insurance Co..

The article discusses the recovery of copper mines in Michigan in 1943 due to bonus payments made by the U.S. government for copper. Copper mining in the state had its greatest boom during the World War I. Michigan was the leading producer of copper in the country between 1847 to 1887. The labor problem facing Michigan resulting from different factors such as the transfer of miners to other location during the depression and a further draft through Selective Service is tackled.

The article gives a preview on the motor car industry show that will be going to Manhattan, New York with its customary flair of private showings, cocktail parties and national publicity to open the 1938 season. It points out that with 5 million cars having been being built and sold in 1937, Michigan's Detroit car manufacturers will be announcing new models at higher prices without fear of dwindling sales by incorporating new improvements. It adds that the 1938 models will have racier colors, smoother lines and more radiator grilles added to car fronts.

The article reports on the bitter fight between the nonunion building contractors and construction unions in North Michigan. It mentions that the contractors have asked the National Labor Relations Board to prevent an alleged conspiracy against them by the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). Moreover, it states that the Michigan confrontation between the two groups reflect the growing use of nonunion labor in construction.

The article reports that Detroit Edison and 32 associated companies seek to build 100 Megawatt (Mw)-nuclear power plant in Michigan.

The article reports that the Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. has consented to a decree wherein it will relinquish control of Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. J. G. White Engineering Corp. president Gano Dunn will serve as the trustee of Panhandle Eastern. Natural gas will be supplied in Detroit, Michigan as the eastward progress of Panhandle Eastern's line will be continued.

Information on topics discussed at the annual meeting of Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, Michigan in May 1956 is presented. The topics include the decrease of stocks by 10 dollars below the initial 64.50 dollars, the possible decrease in profits for April to September 1956, and the earnings needed for the investment in plant equipment. The meeting featured people from the automobile industry including Ford's president Henry Ford II, Ford's chairman Ernest R. Breech, and dissenter Isadore Blau.

The article presents a special report on the conflicting arguments of the guaranteed annual wage (GAW) in the U.S. It examines how GAW would change the patterns of production and marketing of the industry as well how it affects the economy of the nation as a whole. It also offers information on the reasons on why Detroit, Michigan became the first major battleground for GAW.

Information about the American Economic Association (AEA) annual meeting held in Detroit, Michigan, on January 1955, is presented. It is stated that the AEA meetings are regarded as a combination of job market, trade fair and social gathering. It is reported that the AEA conference, which was attended by 2,000 economists, focused on problem solving and practical application of economic theories. The conference, as stated, constituted plans to estimate the effects of automation in industries.

The article focuses on the business strategy of Federal Department Stores Inc. (Federal). It states that Federal has opened all its new stores in locations which are not densely populated. Federal has opened 13 stores in suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. According to Federal, its strategy helps it to earn more from a unit area of selling space than that earned by other department stores in urban areas.

The article focus on the change in the style of the management in the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan. The church is undergoing a restructuring from top to bottom that is compatible with business management principles. In the past 10 years, the church has expanded in pace with population growth by doubling its clergy and assets, increasing its churches and membership by 50%. Ricahrd S. Emrich , Bishop of the church presides over 250 clergy, 178 parishes and missions.

The article reports on the impact of the introduction of 1960 models of compact cars from General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. in Detroit, Michigan. It mentions that foreign automobile manufacturers will likely be hurt by the introduction of these compact cars by the big three automobile companies due to their high sales in the U.S. and in "third" countries. It states that these compact cars will grab about 90% of automobile sales.

The article describes the adjustable lighting solution of the Herpolsheimer's department store in Grand Rapids, Michigan, designed by architect George Ely and lighting engineers from Sylvania Electric Products Co. It discusses the advantages of the lighting system. According to Herpolsheimer's executives, the cost of purchasing, installing and maintaining the Flexi-Module setup compares favorably with conventional lighting set in plaster ceilings.

The article discusses the highlights of the 1947 annual convention of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) held in Detroit, Michigan in mid-January 1947. Baldwin Locomotive Works' Francis G. Tatnall talked about the need for coordinated metallurgy, engineering and materials specification to obtain more efficient vehicle structures. Ford Motors engineers Gosta Vennerholm and EE Ensign discussed the lost wax casting process that is used to produce low-cost engine parts.