Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would conduct now only for a fee and one comparable to that received by Arturo Toscanini (i. e., approximately $2,500 a concert). His services are to be on the market in Manhattan for eight days at which time he will start on a sightseeing tour-to Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, perhaps Canada...
...American Steel Foundries, American Rolling Mills and Standard Steel Car Companies were rife in Wall Street last week. Arthur W. Cutten, Chicago grain speculator and Manhattan stock market operator, was reported to have drawn up a plan with the Fisher brothers (Charles T., Fred J., Lawrence P. & William A., Detroit capitalists of Fisher Body fame), for a holding company into which the stockholdings of these recently successful investors would be pooled. A community of interest between six of the most prominent railway equipment companies in the U. S. would result...
Died. George (Kid) Lavigne, 58, night watchman at the Ford plant, onetime (1893-1899) lightweight boxing champion; in Detroit...
...stocks with which to make delivery to the purchasers at 2:15 P.M. Every craning neck in customers' rooms, every visitor in the packed galleries of the Stock Exchange, knew that General Electric Co., Westinghouse Electric Co., National Bank of Pittsburgh and the famed Fisher Brothers of Detroit owned between them almost all of the 1,155,400 shares of Radio Corporation stock outstanding. Shorts had nevertheless risked selling one third of this total down to $85¼ a share. The night before it had closed at $121¼ The opening bidding and asking scene at the Radio Corporation...
Those ambitious for the Presidency have discovered two very effective means of avoiding the unpleasantness of declaring themselves plainly. One method is that of silence, in the manner of President Coolidge and Mayor Lodge of Detroit: effective where the field is small, and the opposition has stated its platform. Some candidates are pussyfooting in this way; others have found a more subtle scheme, in which the procedure is, first, the careful study of the issues raised and supported by the few who have been audacious enough to speak, and second, the choice of an issue not yet covered...