Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last winter Father Keller went to see Charles T. Fisher, one of the seven rich, Catholic, Detroit brothers. He told Mr. Fisher he wished Catholic Missions might take on some of the smooth quality of Fisher Body advertising. Nothing was simpler, said Mr. Fisher who sent Father Keller to Erwin, Wasey & Co., the Manhattan firm which handles Fisher advertising. Erwin, Wasey agreed to edit captions, help lay out the pictures-for nothing. In three months Father Keller had his pictorial. Advance copies so impressed churchmen that they stepped up their orders to as many as 250,000 copies...
...Manhattan's Polo Grounds last week, the Dodgers gave Manager Terry the answer to his gibe. They won from the Giants the two crucial games that gave the St. Louis Cardinals the National League pennant, the right to meet the Detroit Tigers in the World Series this week. In the last three weeks, the League-leading Giants lost eleven games out of 21. while the Cardinals, thanks principally to the able pitching-of the Dean Brothers...
...teams moved back to Detroit tonight to finish the series, with the Tigers needing only one more victory to capture the world's championship...
...little Tommy Bridges, your pride and joy, beat the Great Dizzy Dean today, 3-1, and put the Detroit Tigers out in front of the St. Louis Cardinals, three games to two, in the 1934 World Series...
This step wasn't taken without experience. No light thing is it to anujhilate the famous Harvard Stadium hotdog, known for generations for its resilieney, its sturdiness, its more pounds per dollar value. Messrs. Jacobs Bros, are the owners of the concessions at Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Michigan State, and "at the Pitt-Notre Dame game we had 63,000 customers and we served 'em redhots and they went nuts about...