Word: detroit
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...Rose Bowl is to college football the annual playoff between the leaders of the Eastern and Western Divisions of the National Football League is to the professional game. In Chicago last week, in a tussle that had no influence on the final standing, the Chicago Bears nosed out the Detroit Lions, 10-to-7. for their 13th successive victory. In Philadelphia the New York Giants, who had qualified for the play-off three days earlier, concluded their schedule by losing to the Philadelphia Eagles, 6-to-0. When the Giants and the Bears meet in Manhattan's Polo Grounds this...
...Teams. Of the ten clubs in the National League, two are new. Detroit bought the franchise of the Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans, and St. Louis replaced Cincinnati. With franchises valued from $10,000 to $100,000, most of the clubs have this season made 20% more money than last year...
...Beattie Feathers has made an unprecedented record by gaining over 1,050 yd. for the Chicago Bears. Minnesota's Jack Manders, also a Bear, is a field goal expert who has only missed one point after touchdown in 31 tries this season. But the majority of able professionals, like Detroit's Earl ("Dutch") Clark, who has scored 73 points this season, Philadelphia's Swede Hanson and Detroit's Glenn Presnell, were unknown nationally until they took to the gridiron for money...
...William Frederick Koch of Detroit announced in 1919 that he had invented ''a synthetic chemical compound of very definite molecular arrangement" which cured cancer. He refused to describe the stuff. Doctors branded him a quack. People whom he claimed to have cured, doctors argued, either never had cancer or, as occasionally happens, recovered spontaneously. Dr. Koch argued that his critics were hostile because his chemical would curtail their profitable cancer business. He proceeded to establish a reputation among laymen, one of whom was Mr. Anderson, onetime railroader. Wartime civilian recruiter for the Army, onetime propagandizer for the Veterans...
...Kokomo had its industrial revolution with the discovery, in the vicinity, of natural gas. Kokomo changed from an agricultural depot to a thriving manufacturing centre. After Elwood Haynes made his first successful run with his horseless carriage on July 4, 1894 at Kokomo, the town became Indiana's Detroit. There Haynes located his plant and there also was built the fleet, low-strung Apperson '"Jackrabbit...