Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pine, wire, and fabric. Design is quite like that for a monoplane. (One popular German model amazingly resembles a Lockheed-Vega.) Wingspan may be up to 65 feet (span of a staunch commercial Ford trimotored transport). But 25 feet is more practical for beginners. The National Glider Association at Detroit will furnish blue prints. However best advice warns against amateur construction, or patching together of old motored plane parts...
...American aircraft show in Detroit early in April, glider jockeys are scheduled to show their skill...
...hurly-burly like that of the University of Missouri, (see above), but a sepulchral silence, fell last week upon the campus of the University of Detroit. By order of the President (Dr. John Patrick McNichols), the 300 girl students were forbidden to converse with the 2,900 boy students. They might, if they wished, say "Good morning" or even ''How do you do,'' but nothing more...
...about a half-billion of this was display advertising, the rest Classified (want advts, legal notices and the like). In total lineage, the Chicago Tribune stood at the top with 30,874,755 lines (as against 31,834,173 for 1927). On its heels came the Detroit News with 30,726,436 lines (in 1927 the News had 30,459,968). Third was the New York Times with 30,641,930 lines...
...Detroit News led the evening newspapers of the land, followed by the Chicago News, then by the Newark (N. J.) News. The bulky New York Sun came eleventh...