Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most frequently bracketed with that of Man o' War is Mrs. Sloane's Cavalcade. The only race Cavalcade has lost this year is the Preakness, in which he was a close second to his stablemate, High Quest. He has won the Shenandoah Purse, Chesapeake Stakes, Kentucky Derby, American Derby, Detroit Derby and Arlington Classic, against the best horses of his age in the country. At the Saratoga yearling sales in 1932, Cavalcade cost his owner $1,200. He is now insured at $200,000, valued at $500,000. His winnings total $126,965. Far below Sun Beau's world record...
Fortnight ago Commissioner Allen set out on a week's junket, financed out of his own pocket. He took a train to Milwaukee, then traveled by street car and bus to Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Chicago. Much of the time he went unshaven. He never spent more than $1.25 for a hotel room. Everywhere he presented him self as a candidate for work, in bread lines, at government relief stations, at employment agencies. When he got back to Washington last week he had something...
...four days of splashing up & down the 50-meter pool at Detroit's River Rouge Park last week the best girl swimmers and divers in the U. S. accomplished the remarkable feat of setting no new U. S. record. It was the first time on record that a national Amateur Athletic Union championship meet had failed to produce at least one. This indication that swimming & diving technique is approaching perfection gave more importance to the nine championships decided. Individual titles...
...Catcher Mickey Cochrane had reason to be proud of his play in the ninth inning of the All-Star game, he had reason to be even prouder later in the week. In his first year as manager of the Detroit Tigers, he kept the team unexpectedly in second place for some six weeks. Last week, in a crucial series against the New York Yankees, Detroit won the first game and moved into first place. Next day, when Babe Ruth hit his 700th home run, the Yankees beat Detroit 4-to-2, regained first place. Detroit won the next two games...
...Walter Chrysler Sr. dropped in the first day to shake hands with his son. Hotel managers popped in to have a look at the little, air-cooling, air-washing, dehumidifying device which Temperature Corp. will sell for $175 plus installation and condensing unit. "Airtemp" will be manufactured in Detroit by Amplex Manufacturing Co., a division of Chrysler Motors. Standing less than three feet high, the cabinet is attached to an ordinary electric base plug and water system, is equipped with a one-eighth h.p. motor which forces air up through water coils into a chamber where it is sprayed, dehumidified...