Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...privilege of salvaging any machinery he can, for use in his own factories. Following the purchase Mr. Mayo offered $40,000 apiece for seven ocean-going tugs, ISO feet long, with which to tow his purchases to his wrecking yards (probably most of the ships will be scrapped at Detroit). The Shipping Board asked $42,500 apiece for the tugs, and Mr. Mayo agreed-a strange commentary on the value of the ships, that the tugs to tow them should be worth individually -nearly five times as much as they...
...Detroit, a school census was taken. The result showed 313,973 children of school age-an increase of almost 30,000 since last year. Estimating the population of the city as four times the number of school children, Detroit has a population of 1,255,892; "Greater Detroit," a population of $1,500,000. In 1921 a city census showed a population of 942,373. "The fastest growing city in the world," cried boosters...
...England Pie Co., Detroit...
William De Witt Hyde was elected President before he had reached his 27th birthday, and is consequently to be regarded as a younger college president than any given in the list of the Detroit News. The present head of the College, Dr. Kenneth C. M. Sills, was elected at the age of 38. Bowdoin College since its foundation in 1794 has had but eight presidents. The average age at the time of election was just 39. If we still think that a college president ought to have the flowing patriarchal beard, it is interesting to recall that Dr. Jesse Appleton...
Born. To Colonel William Mitchell, 45, onetime (1920-25) Brigadier General in the U. S. Army Air Service, and Mrs. Mitchell, a daughter (10 lb.); in Detroit...