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Last week President Charles Benjamin Bohn of Detroit's Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp. announced that his company, after five years of research, had discovered a method, technically ingenious and commercially feasible, for producing virgin aluminum from alunite. Alunite is a whitish ore containing potassium aluminum sulphate...
...alone reveal the method, President Bohn would not even name the researchers who developed it. But he was eager to tell how he had started to build a $50,000 "pilot plant" in Detroit to iron out minor production kinks, and how he would later erect a big producing plant in Utah, which has the most extensive alunite deposits in the U. S. The Utah plant, said President Bohn, would bring his investment in the alunite process close to $10,000,000. That was an impressive figure, and observers saw no reason to question...
Will Rogers occupied a box with Henry Ford. Cinemactor George Raft sat with Radio's Father Coughlin. Bradenton, Fla. changed its name to Deanville. Two men died of heart failure. Children in Detroit were happy: a radio was installed in every schoolhouse auditorium to enable them to hear about it. A newborn baby was named Marvin Dean Gonda. The members of the Byrd Expedition at Little America learned that Funnyman Joe E. Brown was in Detroit. To the U. S. public, the meaning of this series of irrelevant events was completely clear. Two baseball teams were playing each other last...
First Game. A jubilant crowd of 45,000, eager to see the city's first pennant-winning team in 25 years, crowded into Detroit's Navin Field. Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, promptly punctured their excitement. While he was allowing Detroit's Tigers eight hits, his teammate Joseph ("Ducky-Wucky") Medwick made three singles and a homerun that helped the Cardinals...
...Juan, Puerto Rico, a Judge declared a recess so that court attendants could watch a Scoreboard from the balcony. In Detroit, Mrs. Babe Ruth wore a corsage of orchids sent to her by one of her husband's teammates while her husband sat in the press-box in front of the reporter who was ghostwriting his story...