Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Improving with age, El Lagarto won the Gold Cup at Detroit in 1933 with a heat record of 60.866 m. p. h. and then went on to win the two other major motorboat races of that year. Last year on Lake George, where, by the conditions of the race which gives the holder of the Cup the right to name the course, Driver Reis had the race run, she had a close call before she beat Delphine IV. Last month Driver Reis installed a new Miller motor. A few days before the race, a broken connecting rod turned this into...
Having sung ably at Detroit's International Music Festival (TIME, June 3), the 200 members of the Chrysler Motors male choir reassembled in Detroit last month, lustily sang 15 selections before a microphone. A telephone wire carried the sound to The Bronx where Muzak Corp., run by Chrysler Director Waddill Catchings, recorded it on eight disks by a new process which catches more sound vibrations per second than do others currently in use. The records were made by special order of Walter P. Chrysler, who is distinctly proud of the choir which grew spontaneously in his factory. Motorman Chrysler...
...smart Emperor stood for a long moment to receive his people's cheers, then disappeared behind his pink veil. Meanwhile in the U. S. the Negro Afro news service reported that blacks were swarming to enlist to fight for Ethiopia: "Chicago leads with 8,000 enrolled; Detroit comes second with 5,000; Kansas City, 2,000; and Philadelphia 1,500." This news was datelined from Manhattan and Afro's correspondent added with some scorn that Harlem had supplied only 850 recruits, "while Boston, the cradle of U. S. freedom and the home of Crispus Attucks, first American...
...Brooklyn Handicap, he set a world's record for a mile and a furlong (1:48.2), beat both King Saxon, fastest sprinter of the year, and Omaha, winner of the Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Week later, in the Detroit Chal lenge Cup, he beat Azucar, winner of last winter's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap. Last week Discovery's job was the inaugural running of the Butler Handicap, at the Empire City track in Yonkers, N. Y., oldtime project of the late Grocery Tycoon James Butler. Many racegoers thought it would prove Discovery's hardest...
...American League, the New York Yankees were one and a half games ahead of the Detroit Tigers, who, similarly placed a year ago, won the 1934 pennant comfortably. Said Detroit's aggressive Manager Mickey Cochrane, after his team had just won ten games in a row: "I believe we will win the pennant by a wider margin than we did last year. ..." Far less confident was Manager Walter Johnson of the Cleveland Indians who, picked by most experts to win the pennant, were floundering in fourth place. Said he: "Trosky has been a terrible disappointment. So has Hale...