Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flying business a successful forced landing is one you can walk away from. In 1932 big Detroit Aircraft Corp. made a landing that was distinctly not successful. No investor aboard walked away with his pocketbook intact. One of Detroit Aircraft's subsidiaries was Lockheed Aircraft, absorbed in 1929. Although its sleek Vegas and Orions were the fastest commercial jobs in the air, Lockheed had to go into receivership. Grass grew around its two-acre plant at Burbank, Calif., and the factory had only one employe-a watchman who had started working for Brothers Alan and Malcolm Loughead (later changed...
...busy Don Lee Network in the Far West, Help Thy Neighbor in two and a half years has helped place 13,000 persons. Chicago's I Need a Job, over WGN and later WCFL, has placed some 2,400 in less than a year. Last week Detroit's I Want a Job, conducted by the Michigan State Employment Service over WWJ, turned its first birthday. It had placed a modest 225 of 346 applicants who appeared on the program. More interesting than its 225 successes were some of the men for whom it found no jobs...
...Kaiser's taste then was for Kuchen with only the very largest Streussel possible on top of it. Rohrbeck came to the U. S. in 1908, became a citizen in 1913, lost his job this year after some 30 years as a pastry chef in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit. When even his yum-yum recipe for Streusselkuchen* failed to find him a post over the radio, Hans Rohrbeck went out and got himself a good job, is now serving up his Kuchen at Lake St. Clair's select Grosse Pointe Yacht Club...
...fixed charges were earned 1.61 times. At the end of the 1939 fiscal year, net income had hit $2,030,033 and the line had earned its charges 2.26 times. It also paid $743,022 in taxes. Its wage scale went up with income and today Detroit Street Railways' platform men, operating 1,269 busses, 1,302 streetcars, are paid an average of 81? an hour, highest...
...Detroit last week the startled Appeal Board of the Michigan Tax Commission was confronted with a jungle-like black beard. Hiding behind it was Judge Harry Thomas Dewhirst, head of the famed House of David. Male members of this U. S. cult neither shave nor trim their locks, eat no flesh, in the stout belief that thus they will be among the 144,000 elect when Gabriel blows his horn. Judge Dewhirst, rich onetime California jurist, bearded the Appeal Board to beg his sect off from Michigan's unemployment-compensation taxes. He admitted his colony was in business...