Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emory W. Clark, president of the First National Bank of Detroit...
Like lions in a cage, 70 airplanes made to fly were wheeled last week into Convention Hall in Detroit. In a day, 30,000 persons came to the All-American Aircraft Show to see and marvel. Some stayed to buy, for this was a business show, with salesmen talking turkey, not an exhibition of good will...
Beside the huge Fokker in which Byrd flew over the North Pole, the Josephine Ford, stood the yellowed Pride of Detroit, one of three trim Stinson planes, in which William Brock and Edward Schlee flew from Newfoundland to Japan, almost three-quarters of the way around the world...
Public interest exceeded the most optimistic hopes. Long before 10 o'clock, when the doors were opened, there were lines waiting to get in. The giant Sikorsky, moored off the Detroit Yacht Club because it was too big to get into Convention Hall, was constantly surrounded. Most amazing of all, men and women seemed to understand and a few got out their checkbooks...
...Fisher Brothers, Louis P. and William A., executives of General Motors Corp., brought 100 guests from Detroit to City Island, N. Y., to watch twin yachts take the water. Each yacht is 106 feet long, finished in mahogany, capable of doing 22 miles per hour; was built for each Fisher brother at a cost of $250,000. Each Fisher brother plans to spend another $100,000 furnishing and decorating each yacht...