Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Evening Post surveyed the U.S. on the Five & Ten last week. Its sub-headlines told the story: "Plenty in Chicago"; "High Frisco Prices"; "Detroit Trusts Grow"; "New Orleans Still Wet"; "Baltimore Gets Cautious"; "Florida Doesn't Worry"; "Millennium in Boston"; "Warfare in Los Angeles"; "Albany Much Drier"; "Denver Bootleggers Scared"; "Profiteering in Cincinnati"; "Washington Dealers Careful"; [Texas] "Not Jones But Hoover"; "Deaths in St. Louis"; "Corn in Kansas City"; "Moonshine in Louisville"; "Pittsburgh Dealers Quit"; "Cleveland Undismayed"; "Rhode Island Calms Down"; "Indianapolis Unafraid"; "Atlanta Little Affected...
...Buffalo show, more than the Detroit show, which will occur the second week in April, has international aspects. Detroit has across its international Detroit River only small Windsor in rural Ontario. Buffalo has beyond the Niagara River prosperous Toronto in industrialized Ontario...
...first time that Buffalo had made much boom-boom over its eminence in the aviation industry. Greater New York City last year produced $9,000,000 worth of flying goods in 16 manufacturing plants. Buffalo, eleventh in U.S. population last year produced $4,911,252 worth.* Detroit, fifth city, produced $3,500,000 worth; Los Angeles, fourth city...
...Detroit's All-American Aircraft Show will display 107 planes, surpassing Chicago's International Aeronautical Show of last December (TIME, Dec. 17). Manhattan conducted a much smaller show in February (TIME, Feb. 18). Pittsburgh's first exhibition a fortnight ago held 23 planes and five gliders, initiated many a sale and agency. Other important air shows this year are scheduled at Indianapolis and Cleveland. The Gardner Annual Trophy Race at St. Louis also functions as a show...
...death and by sheer ballyhoo turned the Sharkey-Stribling bout in Florida from a certain failure into a financial success. The Dempsey-Fugazy firm will begin with a lightweight championship battle−Sammy Mandell, the title holder, probably against Ray Miller of Chicago−to be held in Detroit, June 6. The Messrs. Dempsey and Fugazy say they will build themselves a coliseum comparable to Madison Square Garden within a year...