Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week he returned from seven years in the service of his country overseas. There was no mention of the fact in Detroit, in Kansas City, in Omaha, in New Orleans-no mention even in Philadelphia, a bare 100 miles from Manhattan's midriff, where he disembarked. He is not, like Andrew Mellon or Rodolfo Valentino, a newspaper character...
...they had done at Philadelphia and London last year, at Minneapolis the year before, bigwigs of the legal profession shook hands all round-last week at the 49th annual meeting of the American Bar Association, at Detroit...
Among the leading 12 U. S. cities, Boston alone showed a slight increase. No change was apparent in Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and St. Louis during the past year. But in Buffalo, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, the trend toward lower rents was unmistakable...
...distinction of having seen the greatest advances in rents since 1914; present rates there are now 131% to 140% above those eleven years ago. Indeed in 1924 Los Angeles landlords obtained rents averaging 161% to 170% higher than in 1914. Apart from Los Angeles, rents in Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are still 100% above 1914 rates...
...Greater Detroit," a population...