Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 6,000 ft. over a Detroit suburb last week Clement Joseph ("Clem") Sohn stepped from an airplane, spread his arms and legs, soared and glided down on the batlike wings which last month made him front-page news (TIME, March 11). At 1,000 ft. he folded his wings, opened his parachute, floated safely to earth...
...Medley was won by Chicago's Lake Shore A. C. relay team in record time. N. Y. A. C.'s Leonard Spence retained his titles at 220-yd. breast stroke and 300-yd. medley. Diving titles went to Miami's Elbert Root (low-board), Detroit's Dick Degener (high-board...
Chances. By last week, after a month of studying all 16 teams, baseball experts were prepared to make their predictions as to how the season will end. Probable winners in the American League, according to a consensus compiled by the Associated Press, will be neither the 1934 pennant-winning Detroit Tigers nor the New York Yankees, who finished second, but the Cleveland Indians. A team of young players, managed by oldtime Pitcher Walter Johnson, the Indians showed surprising strength last year. This year they will start the season without their star shortstop, Bill Knickerbocker, but they have two promising...
Business seemed better in Detroit last week than anywhere else in the land. Ablaze all night, automobile factories were running full-blast. Endless trains of heavy trucks rumbled through the streets carrying shiny new bodies. Shoppers crowded the sidewalks. Department stores reported the best sales since 1930. Cinema theatres and night clubs were packed. At least seven Broadway dramas had played to full houses for a week or more. At the swankest cocktail bars in the town, L'Aiglon and the Book Cadillac, waiters got little sleep. Clerks and salaried workers grumbled as rents and food prices went...
...Henry Mill of England patented a typewriter in 1714, William Burt of Detroit another in 1829 and a practical machine was developed by Sholes, Glidden & Soule in 1867. The first typewriters appeared on the market...