Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happy. How is that?" PAYNE: "Very simple. The international bankers have not taken absolutely all the money-they have left the plain people a small amount, but enough to buy Mr. Hearst's three New York papers, his two Chicago papers, his two Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, Atlanta, Rochester papers, his 16 magazines, and still enough money to go and see his eight expensive historical movies. Why should they not be happy...
...DARK CLOUD?Thomas Boyd? Scribners ($2.00). Because the skipper used to lick him, Hugh Turner ran away from his ship at Quebec, got down to Detroit by river. He met a man named Durham who was a gambler and decent and who in his spare moments punched tickets on the Under- ground Railway, the Negroes' accommodation train. They made out pretty well together, keeping away from Federal officers, until one day a Southern gentleman shot Durham in a card game. After that Hugh shipped on the Bald Eagle with Captain Hargusson and went up and down the Mississippi. That...
...locate his main British factory in Dagenham, ten miles from the heart of London. The new plant will employ 10,000 men, will turn out 500 cars a day. It will be the largest automobile plant in the British Isles, although small compared with existing Ford factories in Detroit...
...Detroiters sat on the cool verandas of their Yacht Club, trained their glasses on a line of snorting speed boats that came plunging down the Detroit River, swept around a wide turn and plunged back upstream on the other leg of an oval course. Toward evening it was announced that Rainbow IV, owned and driven by Harry B. Greening, of Hamilton, Ont., had the best times for three 30-mile heats. Greening was not presented with the American Power Boat Association's Gold Challenge Cup, for which he had raced. A rival pilot protested that Rainbow IV was constructed...
...annual Labor Day races, Commodore Gen. Wood, clamping down the gas-lever of Miss Detroit VII, won the 150-mile international sweepstakes by a two-second margin over Cigarette Jr., of New York. Edsel Ford's boat, 999, burst into flames, sank beneath...