Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, Mich...
...General Motors et al. the job of representing the U. S. automobile industry. This year the Ford Building dwarfs its competitors' exhibits, cost $,.000,000, included the world's largest photomural (600 ft. by 20 ft.), an outdoor show called "Roadways of the World," performances by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra four hours a day for twelve weeks. Lean, gaunt Henry Ford was on hand in shirtsleeves the opening day to whip his spectacle into working order. He noticed a 10-year-old peering at the mechanical exhibits, volunteered to conduct him and other moppets through the place...
...Minnesota he designed a $4,500,000 classical Capitol of Georgia marble and granite, a 142-ft. rotunda. His Municipal Building in Waterbury. Conn, was pure colonial in brick and white marble. Detroit's white marble Public Library was Italian Renaissance. The Union Central Life Insurance Building in Cincinnati was a towering office building. The $10,000,000 West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston was Classic. In 1899 he won a competition with a French Renaissance rendering for a U. S. Customs House in Manhattan, moved to Manhattan shortly thereafter...
Last week for her maiden flight she rose before dawn, went with her husband to an airfield in Detroit. With famed Balloonist Edward J. Hill they took off at 5 a. m., drifted nine hr., came down with a bump in a field near Thamesville, Ont. 58 mi. away. Bruised when her companions landed on top of her, Balloonist Piccard was more concerned about an angel cake she had taken along. "I really don't know what happened to it," she said. "We didn't have a chance to eat it. I guess it got crushed...
These words, tapped from a Manila-Detroit telephone call by short-wave radio sets, crackled into the home of many an eavesdropping Philippine resident. They recognized the voice of Bachelor Frank Murphy, their U. S. Governor-General, knew that he was talking about his official residence, low-rambling Malacanan Palace,* gathered that he was talking to a crony in the U. S. city of which he was once Mayor. His transpacific conversation was inadvertently public because the telephone company had not yet installed its "privacy bays" to scramble outgoing messages...