Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Ford, of booze-dripping Detroit, in an article for the current Pictorial Review, announced: "If booze ever comes back to the United States I am through with manufacturing...
After the race the Imp and her three competitors were shipped to Detroit for a four-day regatta which includes the unrestricted British-U. S. race for the Harmsworth trophy...
...Goods. United Dry Goods Corp. was founded to unite a group of wholesale dry goods concerns, including Finch Van Slyke & McConville of St. Paul; Watts, Ritter of Huntington (W. Va.); Walton N. Moore of San Francisco; Arbuthnot, Stephenson of Pittsburgh; A. Krolik of Detroit. Assets in this merger total $25,000,000. Its purpose: to combat chain stores and others buying directly from the manufacturer by forming a chain of middlemen. Possible future additions to the merger: Ely & Walker of St. Louis; Carson, Pirie, Scott of Chicago; Hibben, Hollweg of Indianapolis; Perkins of Dallas...
...affair started 45 plane manufacturers, 16 enginemakers, 146 accessory firms had exhibits in Cleveland's public auditorium and annex. The municipal airport was bedecked with new buildings, grandstands and wire fences. A street parade of floats inaugurated the festivities. Army, Navy and Marine planes performed over the city. Detroit's new all-metal dirigible made a visit. Commercial planes capered in from all directions. Almost every famed U. S. flyer was there, almost every important air industrialist...
...chance. The News had been courteous to Mrs. Lindbergh when she visited Cleveland just before her marriage. Perhaps the Lindberghs had remembered that, decided to return the courtesy. City Editor Bergener ordered another newsman to telephone the Cutter house. Amused, Col. Lindbergh answered, confirmed, amplified. Flying from Cleveland to Detroit, Col. Lindbergh furnished many another newspaper with good "copy" by visiting President Alvan Macauley of Packard Motor Co., trying out one of the new Diesel-powered Packard airplanes, driving a Packard speed car round a concrete track at 112 m.p.h...