Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian Church in America (TIME, April 7), by convention vote at Detroit, declared itself independent of the home church, but decided not to join the Protestant Episcopal Church. Metropolitan Platon was endorsed; Kedrovsky was denounced as schismatic...
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Under this new director, the Central continued westward. By 1885 the competing West Shore road was leased, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern were purchased, an alliance affected with the "Big Four." This gave the Central a through route to Chicago, as well as an entry into Detroit, Toronto, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis. The acquisition of the "Nickel Plate" removed dangerous competition. Subsequently the Central added more mileage by merger or construction. In the richness of territory it traverses and the number of large cities it touches, it is rivalled only by the Pennsylvania...
...well doubt Henry Ford's supreme ability to earn dividends, or to pay them to himself as a stockholder. But security holders in the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton railroad are not so certain whether the automobile manufacturer is equally enthusiastic about earning interest and dividends for others...
...small point in the humor of this situation lies in the fact that the names of the two New York investors in the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton are B. M. Straus and Jerome Tannenbaum...