Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smithsonian-Chrysler. Dr. William M. Mann, bearded chieftain of the expedition to collect live animals for the National Zoo (Washington, D.C.) at the expense of Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler, of Detroit, has kept faithfully in touch with the press from Darkest Africa. After many successful game drives, no small part of his labors have been providing cages and food for antelopes, birds, pythons, mongooses, monkeys, anteaters, hedgehogs, turtles, baboons. Lassoing gnus; dodging buffalos and night-prowling rhinos; cornering giraffes; distinguishing between hyenas and leopards in the dark, were occupations,, routine. "As I write," wrote Dr. Mann from Lake Manyara, "there...
...Manhattan, Dr. C. Everett Field, director of the Radium Institute of New York, had vexed many physicians by advocating a cancer-cure nostrum of one Dr. William F. Koch of Detroit. Dr. Field's advocacy was the more dangerous because of the wide press publicity recently accorded his claimed ability to transmute diamond tints (TIME, Aug. 23). But, besides Dr. George A. Soper, who spoke officially as director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, only two Manhattan physicians openly opposed Dr. Field's claims. They were Dr. David Bryson Delavan, a director of the American...
...Baron left Wilmington. He regretted going so much, but he disliked publicity, hence journeyed to Pittsburgh where he was again feted by notables. And again the press commented, "Young Freddie was snooping around. . . ." Vexed by this atrocious taste, the Baron moved to Akron, thence to Detroit, where newspapers duly recorded that he had honored Henry Ford's birthday party (TIME...
Into a white circle at the Ford airport, Detroit, flew a straggling squadron of airplanes-19 of the 23 that had set out a fortnight ago on the 2,555-mile Ford Reliability Tour around a rough quadrangle cornered by St. Paul, Lincoln, Neb., Cincinnati and Cleveland (TIME, Aug. 9). Each entry had been rated according to its fuel consumption, manageability, carrying power, and other qualities, leaving it up to the pilots to gain further points by good speed and navigation in getting from point to point. Not a great deal of figuring was needed to award first prize...
...admit the obvious facts-that his sales had fallen off, that production schedules were curtailed, that sales must be induced by the lowered rates. Last week Edward S. ("Playboy") Jordan, with his penchant for quips and his casual naming of noncompetitive motor car makers, remarked: "The barbers in Detroit hotels and the smoking room oracles are feeling sorry for Henry Ford. They think he is up against it. Strange how the crowd likes to hear that the rich man has to wiggle. Well, they said that about John Willys. Now look at the Whippet go. They thought Chrysler...