Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress pass the Wagner Bill, barked Francis J. Dillon, American Federation of Labor organizer in Detroit, to the House Labor Committee last week, or the nation's automobile workers will walk out. The Committee was not impressed. As the results of employes' elections held by the Automobile Labor Board showed, the A. F. of L.. can command only a minor fraction of automobile workers (TIME, Feb. 25). Realistic Laborites know that at most they can call out some makers of parts, perhaps thus cripple production lines...
Last week Parke, Davis sent up a glad shout from Detroit that not only is Dr. Ferry's meningitis antitoxin a definite means of telling whether or not a child is susceptible to cerebro-spinal meningitis, but that in all probability three stiff doses will protect the child against the disease. Dr. Ferry, with the help of Dr. Arthur Harvey Steele and Dr. Robert Henry Haskell, proved his thesis on the students of the Wayne County Training School at Northville, Mich...
...Washington, narcotics agents raided the headquarters of a New York-Cleveland-Detroit-Chicago dope ring, seized $20,000 worth of heroin, arrested...
...reward in Mr. Fisher's case was not the money. His father, one of the seven Fisher Body Brothers, has enough of that. Less than seven years ago young Mr. Fisher was a student at Georgetown University. He emerged to become a vice president of one of Detroit's two great arid now defunct banking groups. He emerged from Detroit's banking fiasco with the personal commendation of Jesse Jones tangibly as well as verbally expressed. He was made RFC's representative in Michigan. His elevation to the RFC board, to succeed the late Senator John...
Rubber Year. A sprawling giant is U. S. Rubber Co. which makes rubber in Sumatra, tires in Detroit, footwear in Naugatuck. machine belts in Passaic, hot water bottles in Providence. Tires are the principal product, but its salesmen will accept orders for engravers' gum and fruit jar rubbers. It has so many subsidiaries that most statistical services do not bother to list them all. Last week there was hardly a stir when U. S. Rubber announced that it had dropped 16 subsidiaries last year, was preparing to drop 15 more, bringing the total down to 31. Simultaneously President Francis...