Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit's Ford may be the most publicized promoter of soybeans, but Reader Mead is right in rating Decatur's Staley as a potent longtime soybean processor. As a North Carolina farm boy, Professor Staley was first shown soybean plants by a returned missionary, never lost interest in the crop thereafter. A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., makers of corn products, crushed 5,764 bu. of beans when it opened its bean processing plant in October 1922, crushed 317,202 bu. in March...
...plant at South Bend, Ind. (TIME, Nov. 30). Same day the Bendix employes went back to work on double shifts, little U.A.W.. out to organize the Automobile industry by striking at its most vulnerable link, the part's makers, called a "sitdown" of 1,200 men in Detroit's Midland Steel Products Co., which makes frame's for Chrysler and Ford...
...Steel, so in Motors is C. I. O. pressing its unionization drive. While Philip Murray, Secretary & Treasurer of United Mine Workers, was speaking last week for the union at motor plants near Detroit, the Chrysler, General Motors and Packard companies all gave wage boosts or bonuses to their workers...
What, asked the 80-year-old Justice, about the responsibility of automobile manufacturers who attracted thousands of workers to Detroit, then turned them out to become burdens on the State...
Descended from a family of early Massachusetts settlers, William Austin Burt was a surveyor, mechanic and millwright. He lived on a farm near Detroit when he put together his writing-machine, which he called "The Typographer." Noticing that local magnetism frequently disturbed surveying compasses, he invented a sun-compass, was awarded a medal and $20 in gold by the Franklin Institute. Burt returned from a trip to England in a windjammer to see how well its navigator maintained his course, was thus spurred to invent an equatorial sextant. One of two members of Michigan's early Territorial Legislative Council...