Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most of the leading centres of population show larger amounts this March than for the same month last year; leading examples are Boston, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Greater New York, Memphis, Dallas, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee and practically all the Pacific Coast cities. Yet many large cities, notably Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Indianapolis and smaller Western and Southern centres, show a decrease compared...
When the U. S. Steel Corporation acquired its own railroad lines to expedite the passage of its raw material and products from mine to mill, much comment was occasioned. In recent years, the example set by the Steel Corporation has been followed by Henry Ford in acquiring the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad...
Apparently the Willys-Overland interests have decided to emulate their great rival in Detroit. Together with the Wabash Railroad, Willys-Overland has just acquired the Toledo & Western Railroad, as well as several hundred acres of industrial sites in West Toledo. The joint owners have organized the Toledo & Western Railway Co. to operate the road and develop the new industrial acreage. The value of road and land is estimated at $2,000,000; in addition, $1,000,000 will be spent in modernizing the road and improving its terminal facilities in West Toledo. A spur line will very shortly be extended...
...luncheon and clinic at the Henry Ford Hospital was arranged for all members of the Detroit Academy of Surgery. Invitations were issued. A very few members accepted. The arrangements were cancelled...
...Ford to straighten out the tangle, and flatly declares that the latter has openly refused to fulfil his part of the agreement. This attitude on Mr. Ford's part is attributed by Col. Leland to a desire for revenge; in 1902 Henry Ford was dismissed from the Detroit Automobile Co., in which Col. Leland, a pioneer in the industry, was a prominent factor. Leland disclaims any part in Ford's dismissal, but he states that Ford had declared, "I wouldn't sell the Lincoln plant for $500,000,000. I had a purpose in acquiring that plant...