Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty years ago, on June 1, 1907, President Eliot announced at the Detroit meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs that the university proposed to establish a graduate school for training in business. With a grant of $12,500 a year for five years from the Rockefeller Foundation and with an equal annual sum secured by Professor Taussig from friends of the cause, the Corporation was enabled on March 30, 1908, to establish the Graduate School of Business Administration. It opened its doors to students in September...
...within 15 months." Replied the responsible Soviet official, according to despatches, "The contract is yours. You will receive a large bonus if you complete the work in less than 15 months. In compliment to your company we shall probably call the city Austingrad." Austingrad will be the Detroit of Red Russia. Primarily it is intended as the Soviet focus of motor car manufacture, and $20,000,000 of the contract will be spent on car and tractor plants built for the latest type of straight line mass production. Three hundred motor vehicles per day will represent not peak but conservative...
...Dearborn's Mayor Clyde E. Ford revealed that his second cousin, Detroit's manufacturer Henry Ford, had offered a home for the garbage of Detroit and vicinity. His plan: to reduce garbage to grease, fuel and fertilizers at the Ford plant. Turning garbage into grease may sound to inexperts like catching mumps to cure measles, but to the Detroit city fathers it means a saving of several million dollars. The city will collect the garbage, deliver it to the Ford reduction plant; all further costs will come out of the Ford pocket. A Ford-operated garbage-to-grease plant...
...Thus, last month, wrote George U. Harvey, aggressive president of Queens Borough (New York City), to Henry Ford. Last week he got his answer: a Fordman would call on Mr. Harvey, confer with him on what to do with old cars abandoned along Queens highways. A solution, adopted in Detroit, was suggested: haul the cars to jails and let prisoners break them up. ¶ The Ford plants turned out in August 205,634 Model A cars and trucks, a record for August. In only one other month, October 1925, has Ford production passed this figure...
Many a race between shadowy contraband-carrying rumrunners and swift, searchlight playing patrol boats has been run on the narrow Detroit river. Last week 400,000 persons lined the river's edge to watch millionaires race millionaires...