Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Ford plants are Albert Kahn's work. So are the buildings whence come Packards, whence Hudsons. For his design of Detroit's Fisher Building he was awarded the silver medal of the Architectural League. From princely fees he gives to charity a princely $75,000 a year...
...Department of Commerce is the work of the Division of Simplified Practice, which endeavors to save manufacturing waste by standardization of products. Thus, for instance, if curbstones in Manhattan are higher than curbstones in Chicago, and curbstones in St. Louis are higher than curbstones in Manhattan, and curbstones in Detroit are higher than curbstones in St. Louis, distressed is the curbstone maker and pleased would he be at the adoption of a uniform curbstone for all U. S. cities. Last fortnight Department of Commerce minds bent themselves to the task of simplifying the wheelbarrow industry. No less than 168 different...
...running the Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) News, some 17 years ago, Homer Guck was running two smalltown newspapers nearby, the Houghton Mining Gazette, the Calumet News. The young editors were friends, newstraders. When their ways parted, Col. Knox went to Mr. Hearst's chainpapers, Publisher Guck to Detroit to learn insurance (Detroit Life) and banking (Union Trust Co.), to make a reputation,as a city-booster...
...Knox met his former friend in the office of Mr. Hearst's Detroit Times. Colonel Knox suggested that square-jawed Banker Guck come into the Hearst fold. Banker Guck agreed. After six months of learning Hearst methods on the New York Evening Journal, Newspaperman Guck was sent to San Francisco to general-manage the Hearst Examiner there. Now he is considered ready and able to represent the Hearst interests in Chicago, fabulous city of world's fairs, gang-wars, tallest buildings, youngest university presidents, blatant mayors, model department stores, bursting progress. Having made a mark on both edges...
...miles from Pittsburgh. One other balloon came down in Pennsylvania. Seven others descended across the broad expanse of upper New York. After 36 hours, all but two had been heard from: Navy No. 1, piloted by Lieut. Thomas G. W. Settle and Ensign Wilfred Bushnell; and Detroit Times, piloted by Arthur G. Schlosser and E. J. Hill. Far beyond the marks of any of the others, Navy 1 came to earth, nearly 43 hours after starting, at Canavoy, Prince Edward Island. More hours passed, with the Detroit Times no man on earth knew where...