Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Prosperity's fingers had touched the clothing industry throughout the U. S. C Visitors at Paul Smith's climbed a tree, one armed with a jar of jam. They were "bear-hunting," endeavoring to recapture Babe, a bear cub brought there ten days previously by a Detroit cinema man. Finally bruin was coaxed to captivity...
...Saturday evening concerts, begin- ning Oct. 8 and ending April 30, and 10 Monday evening concerts and a double series of young people's concerts Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Out of town appearances will be in New York (10), Baltimore (5), Washington (3), Indianapolis, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland. Among the soloists will be Moriz Rosenthai, Sergei Rachmaninov, Clara Haskil, Walter Gieseking, Efrem Zimbalist, Ruth Breton, Maurice Marechal, Lauritz Melchior...
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Harry Mulford Jewett, president Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co.: "I made a speech to 1,500 of my Jewett and Paige dealers at an elaborate dinner in the grand ballroom of the Book Cadillac Hotel, Detroit. Said I: 'The new Paige is a powerful brute. You can drive it right through hell and you can't make it heat...
Henry Ford, Detroit automobile manufacturer: "Researchers W. A. Noel and Rudolph Hellbach of the U. S. Department of Agriculture reported, in the magazine Power (weekly), that they had run one of the regulation motors made at my factory, on sweepings from a grain elevator. Dust particles suspended in air will oxidize with explosion rapidity just as gas particles do. The experimenters had replaced the carburetor of their Ford motor with an arrangement of valves, pipes and a small fan, feeding the grain-dust by hand. Ignition was by spark plugs as usual, the electric current being controlled slightly differently from...