Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able to go to Texas for the celebration at El Paso of the 75th anniversary of the Gadsden Purchase.? Instead he will probably make a trip to Cincinnati and Louisville for the formal opening of locks on the Ohio River. Oct. 21 he is due in Detroit to help Henry Ford and the Edison Pioneers celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the electric light bulb...
...Sept. 29, the two railroads announced last week, the Pennsylvania will run two more 20-hour trains each way every day, the New York Central will run three more westbound, four more eastbound. All will have the same equipment and extra fare as the old 20-hour trains. Detroit-Pontiac. The Grand Trunk Railway last week announced plans to electrify its lines between Detroit and Pontiac. A four-track, 40-minute suburban system will be provided-and over the hurrying interurban trains will be a four-lane motor speedway to permit hurrying autoists to cross some 25 miles of country...
...Detroit prohibition agents startled themselves by discovering an underwater cable along which liquor cargoes from Canada were towed on a sledge while Customs boats patroled overhead. The agents declared they thought a second cable existed. Detroiters with better imaginations wondered how many others there were...
...inaugurate a separate Pacific Coast edition." Western brokers viewed the plan with approval. Well known to them is the man selected to be the Journal's editor-H. C. Hendee, head of Dow, Jones's Pacific Coast financial ticker news service, once a newspaper reporter on the Detroit News with Mr. Hogate. The establishment of the Journal seemed a natural out- growth of the establishment last year of Dow, Jones's coast-to-coast direct wire, serving Pacific Coast brokerage houses with last-minute eastern news. Pacific Coast brokers will have in the new Journal the only...
...Detroit Stock Exchange one day last week Bank of Detroit opened 120 points higher than it had closed the night before. Union-Commerce Corp. varied 39 points during the day's trading. Other banks' stocks danced, jumped, oscillated. Half an hour after the market closed, the reason for these gyrations became evident. Officials of Guardian Detroit Group and Union-Commerce Corp.?two of Detroit's biggest banks ? announced their merger. Furthermore, the merged bank planned soon to acquire Bank of Detroit and eight smaller institutions in and around the city. With capital assets of $75,000,000, deposits...