Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME Detroit, Mich. New York, N. Y. June 5, 1925 Sirs: While I have never been a subscriber to your magazine, I have read it with interest from time to time. I know it has a number of great admirers in this vicinity. The late Dr. Burton, President of the University of reader." Michigan, in particular, was a "constant reader...
...Blue, one of which he won himself when his two strike-outs and a triple gave the Holy Cross nine a 7 to 6 win, he defeated Princeton 4 to 1, and helped to pile up a 14 to 3 score against the Crimson. He will join the Detroit major league team next year with what is probably the greatest record ever taken by a collegian into professional ranks...
...entire office. After four years of this, he proceeded to buy out the manufacturing end of the business, and acquired five men to help him run it. During the dark days of 1920, these five stuck to Wardell and his vacuum cleaners. Today, the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co., Detroit, is the largest manufacturing concern of its type in the world, with 250,000 shares of stock outstanding and no bonds or preferred ahead of it. The whole business has been built out of its extraordinary earnings. Five years ago, Wardell's five henchmen invested among them a meagre...
...world. The company was capitalized at $10,000,000, and $2,000,000 was at once subscribed-enough to start immediate operation of a New York-Chicago overnight route. The list of officers and directors of the National Air Transport Corporation is imposing. President is Howard E. Coffin of Detroit, whose reputation was made as an executive of the Hudson Motor Car Co. Probable Chairman of the Board is Harold H. Emmons, automotive man of equal standing and one of the fathers of the Liberty motor. Clement M. Keys, President of the famed Curtiss Airplane Co., is to be Chairman...
...keen industrialist who keeps his eyes on things has proposed to buy them for scrap at scrap prices. But all was not generally known until the Chairman of the Shipping Board ("T. V. O'C.") made a speech, last week, to some travelers on a boat plying between Detroit and Buffalo...