Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official backers are the American Geographical Society, the Detroit Aviation Society and the North American Newspaper Alliance, represented by the following committee...
...Chairman, William B. Mayo of Detroit, chief engineer and general manager of the Ford Motor Co.; general manager, E. S. Evans of Detroit, engineer and capitalist; Dr. Isaiah Bowman of Manhattan, director of the American Geographical Society; Vilhj�lmur Stefansson of Manhattan, explorer; Loring Pickering of Manhattan, general manager of the North American Newspaper Alliance; Capt. George Hubert Wilkins, Australian explorer and aviator; Harold H. Emmons of Detroit, attorney and sportsman explorer...
...there is land and if it is attached to the U. S., this country will possess the Hawaii, the Suez, the Yap of the predestined north routes. So enters the theme of patriotism. Nor is there lacking the aria of commercial enterprise?for the flight will be named the Detroit Arctic Expedition...
Having used the motor car for almost every other conceivable purpose, leading Detroit automobile makers have now organized a company entitled "Snow Motors Inc.," to put out a machine which will negotiate the deepest snowdrifts at six to eight miles an hour. The new car will consist of a Ford tractor power-plant mounted on two revolving cylinders instead of wheels-something on the order of a steam roller. The machine has already proved its usefulness in deep snow previously unnavigable. One such machine has done the work which formerly required three teams. In Oregon a stage line uses...
...passion of motor makers to improve their product, and do it in a hurry too, has created in Detroit deep interest in an lleged "mystery car," which is said to be revolutionary in design and about to be produced by a Detroit motor concern...