Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them during the heats, and burst the red yarn first in a fleet final. The same shadow flitted through the low hurdles, placed second. Then it took second pace in the high jump and was hero of the meet. This shadow was Runner Loving of Cass Technical High School, Detroit. His teammate, Runner Talan, also a Negro, rushed in second in the 50-yard dash. The 14 points thus won between them were sufficient to win the championship for Cass. Second, Detroit Northwestern, 12 points. Third, Elmwood (Ill.), 10. Twenty-two teams of the 56 entered placed in the score...
...note above the crackling static?a note that said another wireless operator back in Fairbanks had heard the preliminary signals of Waskey's small portable radio, was ready to receive and relay to the outer world news of the advance party of the aerial polar expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce and commanded by Captain George H. Wilkins, Australian-born soldier of fortune...
...winter winds, maintained its hold upon the main expedition. Originally, Captain Wilkins had planned to lead three monoplanes into the north?two triple-engined Fokkers and a single-motored Liberty. One of the Fokkers was burned up in January during its final tests at the Ford experimental field near Detroit. The other Fokker (the Detroiter) and the Liberty plane?dubbed Alaskan?had reached Fairbanks safely. Snowplows and road-rollers had labored for days ironing out a take-off and landing field in the wrinkled snow-carpet covering Fairbanks. But the day of the first attempted flights, Reporter Hutchinson...
...Detroit Tribune was burned out, and the outspoken tabloid News rose from its ashes. Edward Scripps worked up in three years from newsboy to legislative reporter. His sister Ellen Browning Scripps (TIME, Feb. 22, EDUCATION) joined the family group as rewriter and condenser. In after years, Edward was to remain very close to this sister throughout all his activities...
...platform in Detroit last January sat a quiet, alert, well-dressed man. Close to him sat Robert C. Graham, Vice President and General Sales Manager of Dodge Brothers, Inc. Before him in the amphitheatre sat some 3,000 retail sellers of Dodge motor cars and Graham trucks. The quiet, alert one had bought out their company for $146,000,000 some time before (TIME, April 13). He was Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co., the Manhattan banking house...