Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Railroads? In 1920 Mr. Ford paid $385,000 for the control of the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad, and financiers said he was paying just exactly that sum for "worthless paper." The gross income for the first five months of 1923 is stated as being $4,156,877, which is more than the D. T. & I. took in during any of the full years 1916 to 1919. And the annual earnings for the road this year are figured at $1,530,000, which, allowing for all taxes, should give a net income of over...
...Demotte's gift of examples of French Gothic art to museums in New York, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Cambridge, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Chicago, Brooklyn, Washington, Detroit...
Richard H. Webber, connoisseur of Detroit, gave to the art institute of his city a painting, Winter, by Ernest Lawson. Lawson, in California born, in Kansas and Paris taught, is one of the progressive painters of New York...
Lloyd's of London have insured Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, famous American ace, against flying accidents for $1,000,000, the biggest aviation policy ever written. Rickenbacker, now an official of the Rickenbacker Motor Company, Detroit, saves time on his automobile inspection trips by flying about the country and claims there is less danger in the air than on automobile-congested roads. Most insurance policies are nullified in case of flying accidents...
...Most runs ever scored by a big league baseball player: Tyrus B. Cobb, Detroit American League team: 1,741. Cobb reached this mark on May 26, during his 18th big league season. (Hans Wagner, Shortstop Emeritus of the Pittsburgh Nationals, scored 1,740 runs in 20 years of play.) ¶ 50 yard swim, for women: Lillie Bowmer, Hawaii, 28 sec. ¶ Plunge, for women: Helen Moses, Hawaii...