Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glenn L. Martin Co. of Cleveland, famed airplane makers, was last week given a U. S. Navy contract for 54 bombing and torpedo planes. The Navy also took an option to buy 96 more planes of the same type within five weeks. The 54 planes already contracted for will cost $1,560,000; the entire order will assure a full year of steady work to the 800 Glenn L. Martin employes...
...Kansas City, Mo., might study and test his treatment of certain cases of diabetes, pernicious anemia and cancer by putting the patients in tanks filled with air under pressure. Mr. Timken has spent $165,000 for a ten-acre plot of land on the Lake Erie shore at Cleveland's eastern limits and, last week, had agents apply for a building permit to construct the first steel tank, to be 64 feet in diameter and the equivalent of five stories high. Inside will be airtight chambers to contain compressed air, like the treatment tank that Dr. Cunningham...
...three days, Cleveland had been sprinkled with Germans-from Chicago, from Milwaukee, from Peoria, from St. Louis, from Manhattan, They were singing as they loved to, celebrating a community festival that some of their parents and grandparents had founded in 1845 in Wurzburg, Bavaria...
...triennial convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in Cleveland, President William B. Prenter presented a financial proposal from Mitten Management, Inc. This corporation, headed by Thomas Eugene Mitten and his son Dr. A. A. Mitten, has been remarkably successful in operating street cars, motor busses, taxicabs and a bank in Philadelphia, also a street car line in Buffalo. Their plan has been to permit employes to share in the management, investments and profits of their enterprises...
Within the Brotherhood conferences in Cleveland last week criticism developed against the Mittens' proposal. Learning this Dr. A. A. Mitten telegraphed: "The apparent impossibility of there being a sufficiently unanimous accord of the convention in approval, prompts us now to request that the proposition ... be now withdrawn." Said B. of L. E. President Prenter: "Other plans preferable to the Mitten project will be brought before the convention...