Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President. Long enthusiastic about the development of aviation, the President's vacation has made him even more interested in the plane's future. He has seen the efficiency of the air mail. The pet collie dog recently (TIME, Aug. 1) presented to him made the trip from Detroit by airplane. There is a plane at Custer State Park, S. Dak., ready to rush the President to Washington in any emergency. So, remote from centres of population, the President has more than ever realized the airplane as a factor in decreasing distance...
...tradition are not permitted to remain in their charges long enough to become local leaders. However, the success of Mareellus B. Fuller in making the Lakewood M. E. Church (at Cleveland) the largest of that denomination's congregation and of Merton Stacher Rice in making the Metropolitan Church of Detroit the second largest, each after several years with the same congregation, makes a change in Methodist clerical practice seem imminent, says editor W. B. Leach of Church Management...
...diabetic cure and one for hay-fever; A. C. Geyser is a promoter of the 'tricho system'; George E. Harter is the founder and director of the Defensive Diet League; E. M. Perdue has a cancer cure. And then there is Koch-William F. Koch, M.D., Detroit, Mich.- inventor of the Koch synthetic antitoxin for the cure of cancer. According to his bulletin, some 300 physicians will gather to discuss the use of the Koch remedy in cancer. But one meeting is to be a joint meeting with the distinguished members of the American Association for Medico-Physical...
...that "WE" is put, there is no doubt that it is original material from Colonel Lindbergh's own pen, that he took great pains and a reasonable length of time in writing it. It is an ungarnished autobiography, beginning with the sentence: "I was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 4, 1902." Many a garrulous autobiographer might well follow Colonel Lindbergh's example of omitting the personal parsley...
Winging out of the edge of a storm that had buffeted and bounced them all the way from Grand Rapids, 13 commercial airplanes of 14 that had started three weeks before, snored down across the finish line of the third National Reliability Tour into Ford Airport, Detroit. First to cross the line was a Pitcairn Mailwing. Four seconds later came Pilot Eddie Stinson of Detroit, with seven passengers in a cabined monoplane of his own design. Of the merit points awarded for keeping to schedule, not having accidents, fuel economy, etc.-he had 2,000 more than any other contestant...