Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Beecher Warren, after a sojourn of several days at the White House, packed up his bags and went home to Detroit...
When Henry Ford examined Lawrence Sperry's Messenger Plane at the Detroit Aviation races of 1922, he pronounced it possible to build such small planes in production more cheaply than his own well-known product. Ever since, frequent rumors have credited the great manufacturer as planning the construction of an army of "flivver"' airplanes to make flying as popular as automobiling. But the Fords are wiser than to imagine that this is immediately possible. They are, indeed, in aviation, but not building airplanes, nor trying to popularize them...
...Fords interested in aviation? Certainly not to make money at the moment; the airplane and the dirigible company are spending money freely in experimentation, with returns only in the future. It is because they believe that aircraft will revolutionize transportation, and because they want Detroit to be the center of manufacture for the equipment of the air. They have recently donated an airport to the City-a model of its kind. When Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the ZR3 in its trip across the Atlantic, visited Detroit, Henry Ford invited him to bring the huge ship to Detroit...
...entering politics. Both entered politics for the love or the honor of it. The first, Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, has been noted for nonpartisan conduct in office. The second, James Couzens, junior Senator from Michigan, is known for the many great services he rendered his city, Detroit, of which he was mayor...
...James Couzens, 31, Canadian by birth, was receiving $1,800 a year, working in a coal yard in Detroit. His employer, A. Y. Malcolmson, took some stock in the company Henry Ford was organizing in exchange for guaranteeing the Ford Company's credit up to $7,000. Malcolmson detached Couzens to work with Ford. Couzens had just received a bonus of $500 for bringing the profits of the coal yard up to $90,000 a year. He put this with $400 he had saved, borrowed $100 from his sister and added his personal note for $1,500- with this...