Word: ypsilanti
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...task is expected to be formidable. Part of the job of the chief restructuring officer will be to dispose of real estate such as closed factories. GM assembly plants in Pontiac, Mich. and Wilmington, Del., as well as power-train plants in Livonia, Flint and Ypsilanti Township, Mich., Parma, Ohio, and Fredericksburg, Va., were just added to the list. The automaker also is shutting underutilized stamping plants in Indianapolis and Mansfield, Ohio; and closing warehouses in Boston, Jacksonville, Fla., and Columbus, Ohio, all by the end of this year. Workers at all nine plants and the three warehouses were told...
...workhorse of the U.S. Army Air Force's strategic campaigns in World War II, unaffectionately known to its crews as "the flying shithouse." The plant took a while to get going. There was a shortage of local labor, which meant that workers had to be imported from Appalachia (Ypsilanti, a local town, became known as "Ypsitucky"). Mosquitoes plagued the site until Henry Ford imported a bug-eating fish that Mussolini had found useful in draining the Pontine marshes in Italy. By 1944, Willow Run was turning out a B-24 every hour (it later got the time down...
...justify advocating animal rights in a world filled with poverty and starvation? Joslyn DeGroot YPSILANTI, MICH...
...with roots in the former East Germany won seats in a major west German parliament for the first time. "Today we have changed the cultural and political landscape of the German Federal Republic," Left Party Secretary-General Dietmar Bartsch told supporters after the vote. Hesse's SPD leader, Andrea Ypsilanti, was equally jubilant, declaring: "Social democracy is back...
Well, maybe: Ypsilanti severely wounded the CDU incumbent, Roland Koch, but she didn't quite surpass his vote tally. And the SPD fared poorly in Lower Saxony, where a clean-cut CDU candidate played to the center and the Left Party gnawed at the SPD's union base. But after 10 years in which German politics - and the SPD - remained largely in the political center, left-wing economic policies are winning votes again, marking a break with a decade of cautious reformism. That sets a new tone for elections in Hamburg and Bavaria later this year, as well...