The 1950s

ABOVE Miners load salt on a conveyer belt at the Detroit salt mine underneath the city, August 6, 1950. This gigantic mine, 1,160 feet beneath the surface, spreads out over more than 1,400 acres with fifty miles of roads. THE DETROIT NEWS

ABOVE LEFT The Nash-Kelvinator float in the parade celebrating Detroit’s 250th birthday, July 31, 1951. THE DETROIT NEWS

OPPOSITE The Detroit News, June 25, 1950. “Communist forces from North Korea at dawn today invaded South Korea on a wide front and U.S. military advisers feared it was the long-expected invasion.

Approximately 500 U.S. officers and men of a military advisory mission are here. In addition, there are numerous U.S. officials, businessmen and missionaries. The last U.S. combat troops were withdrawn from South Korea in June of 1949.

A military adviser said it was probable the northern invaders might push as far south as eight miles from the border in most places before meeting an established line of resistance.

The attack came as Brig. Gen. William L. Roberts, who commanded the advisory group here, was to sail from Japan to the United States and retirement.”

LEFT General Motors automative designers created full-scale drawings of vehicle designs in 1951. THE DETROIT NEWS

ABOVE Fans find plenty to cheer about at the 1951 All-Star Game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. THE DETROIT NEWS

ABOVE RIGHT Detroit Lions co-captains Johnny Prchlik and Bob Smith (40) carry coach Buddy Parker off the field on December 28, 1952, as the Detroit Lions celebrate their victory over the Cleveland Browns for the world championship. Others (from left) are mascot William “Moon” Baker, Stan Campbell (67), Gus Cifelli, and Bill Doran.

LEFT The Detroit News, November 5, 1952. “Sweeping to victory with the greatest popular vote ever run up by an American political candidate, Gen. Eisenhower has won election as the thirty-third President of the United States. Nearly completed returns this morning showed the general leading 429-to-102 in the electoral college.

…as returns from the hardfought election came in, it was apparent that the voters had chosen a change to Eisenhower, not to the Republican Party as a whole.

… Women outvoted men in scores, and perhaps hundreds, of Detroit’s 1,480 polling precincts Tuesday as the city turned out to set an all-time record for voting.”

ABOVE President Barack Obama enters to a cheering crowd to speak at Detroit Diesel in Redford, Michigan, on December 10, 2012. Daimler AG planned to announce $100 million investment into the facility at Detroit Diesel.

ROBIN BUCKSON / THE DETROIT NEWS

ABOVE LEFT Michigan State’s Adreian Payne takes the ball to the basket as MSU plays North Carolina on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson in the Carrier Classic, November 11, 2011. DALE G. YOUNG / THE DETROIT NEWS

LEFT Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander celebrates in the locker room after Game 4 of the American League Championship Series between the Tigers and the New York Yankees at Comerica Park in Detroit, October 18, 2012. The Tigers won 8-2, and swept the Yankees in the series 4-0.

DAVID GURALNICK / THE DETROIT NEWS

ABOVE Jake Poole, front, and Cameron Carvama paddle a small boat through flood waters on Southfield freeway service drive near Outer Drive, August 12, 2014. Many of the neighborhood roads in the area were flooded after heavy rains the previous day.

BRYAN MITCHELL / THE DETROIT NEWS

RIGHT The front page of The Detroit News on August 13, 2014.

BELOW Flooding on Interstate 75 southbound near Warren Avenue in Detroit Monday August 11, 2014. Some cars were stuck, some were able to get out.

ELIZABETH CONLEY / THE DETROIT NEWS

The financial insurance giant that has vigorously attacked Detroit’s “grand bargain” is accusing court-appointed mediators of engineering a “fraudulent” plan to rescue city pensioners and preserve city-owned art at the expense of other creditors.

Syncora Guarantee Inc. on Tuesday filed a blistering objection to Detroit’s bankruptcy exit plan, accusing Chie District Judge Gerald Rosen and attorney Eugene Driker of being “agenda driven, conflicted mediators who colluded with certain interested parties to benefi select favored creditors to the gross detriment of disfavored creditors.” The bond insurer which so far has had little success in derailing Detroit’s fast-track bankruptcy, wants U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes to reject the “grand bargain” on grounds that Rosen’s mediation process was “tainted.” David Heiman, one of Detroit’s top bankruptcy attorneys at the Jones Day law firm, said Tuesday Rosen and Driker have been “very balanced, very neutral, very sophisticated and

75 and 696. “Let’s make sure we do the assessments, and then we’l do the follow-up to say what aid and assistance is available,” Snyder said. The flood was responsible for at least two deaths, both in Warren. A 31year-old woman was found inside a vehicle that was stranded in about 3

ABOVE One-hundred-and-fourteen-year-old Jeralean Talley claps along with a song at the church service and birthday celebration in her honor at New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church in Inkster on May 26, 2013. At the time, Talley was the oldest known person in the United States.

ABOVE LEFT Michigan State quarterback Connor Cook holds a rose in his teeth as MSU beats Ohio State, 34-24, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis in the Big Ten Championship game, December 7, 2013.

LEFT Spartans mess up coach Tom Izzo’s hair in celebration as MSU beats Louisville, 76-70, in their NCAA Elite Eight game at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York, on March 29, 2015.

ABOVE Tigers’ Torii Hunter, Miguel Cabrera, and Prince Fielder head to the dugout for the start of the game as the Tigers take on the Boston Red Sox in ALCS Game 1 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts on October 12, 2013.

ABOVE RIGHT Tucker Alberts of Howell is airborne and not really in the position he had hoped for, but he makes the take-down anyway during the Steer Wrestling competition at the Michigan High School Rodeo Association’s 2015 State Finals Rodeo in Ovid on June 5, 2015.

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