Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge in the Adirondacks, laden with photographs and sheets of statistics, to report what progress the emperor of the highways had made in his conquest of the air. First of all, Edsel Ford explained the ship† that is to be standardized and produced, en masse, at Detroit. No air "jitney," it is a large ship, designed for commercial uses. It is an all-metal monoplane with three Wright-Whirlwind motors. It can carry a ton of freight, operating at a cost of 13.8 cents a mile. Its cruising radius is 2,500 miles. New, it costs the purchaser...
...Detroit, Mich...
...Detroit, one Patrick Klein (pugilist) last week argued with a bullyboy thug - who fired four shots point blank. One bullet pierced Pugilist Klein's chest, nicked the outer wall of his heart, fortunately for him, just as it was contracting in its beat. Had the heart been expanding at the instant of the bullet's passing, it would have been torn mortally. Last week Surgeon Bernard Friedlander at Detroit's Highland Park General Hospital laid open Pugilist Klein's chest with infinite care not to disturb the even pulsation of the heart, plucked out the imbedded...
...Technology (TIME, Feb. 1). That the Kodak interest in cinematic pedagogy is more than a commercial project was seen in the fact that the films are to be made in co-operation with the National Education Association. School authorities in ten cities are to assist- in New York, Rochester, Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Los Angeles, Springfield (or Newton), Macs., Atlanta and Winston-Salem, N. C. Dr. Thomas Edward Fin- egan, chairman of the National Education Association's committee on visual education, has been conferring with a committee that in- cluded Dr. John Huston Finley of Manhattan, Superintendent William...
...with the old insurrector, General Aguinaldo, who has now become a leader for the Americanization of the Philippines. He believed that many of the Filipinos would hate to have the Americans leave. Petite brown ballarinas had begun to like U. S. soldiers, sailors, wealthy businessmen, dance halls, automobiles from Detroit, clothes from Chicago. There is a possibility that General Aguinaldo may come out of his retirement to lead Americanists if Filipinos Quezon and Roxas continue their noncooperation policy toward Governor General Wood...