Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, Mich...
Since then, the Penn and Central lines have been bitter rivals. Central's chief asset was the mail contract from Detroit to Washington, Pennsylvania's the longer route with a mail contract between Detroit and Milwaukee. Central plumped for trimotored Stinsons, Pennsylvania for twin-motored Boeings. The battle involved rate cuts, protests to the Post Office and the I. C. C. Neither side won an advantage. Both thrived. In 1935 Pennsylvania's passenger traffic was 200% better than in 1934. This year the gain has been nearly as great. Central did equally well; August...
...TIME, Nov. 2) who died intestate; an estimated $30,000,000 to be divided under State law: one-third to Widow Margaret Ann Manning Couzens, two-thirds between his three daughters (Mrs. Madeleine Couzens Yaw, Mrs. Margo Couzens Chewning, Edith Valeria Couzens) and his son Mayor Frank Couzens of Detroit. Federal estate taxes will take some...
Last summer the citizens of Kenosha, Wis., gave Charles Williams Nash a public celebration in honor of the 20th anniversary of his removal from Detroit. A farmer until he was 28, a buggy maker in his 40's, the robust, hard-headed motorman stepped down from the presidency of General Motors Corp. at 52 to make his own car under his own name. In the two decades since he moved to Kenosha, his Nash Motors Co. has made more than 1,100,000 cars, paid more than $110,000,000 in dividends...
...manager as president and presumptive successor. Not long ago, however, Mr. Nash regretfully announced President Earl Hansen McCarty's resignation. At 72 thrifty Mr. Nash again had the job of finding an eventual chief executive. Last week he found his man - George Walter Mason, 45, president-chairman of Detroit's Kelvinator Corp...