Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stepan Simonovich Dybets, manager of the Soviet Automobile and Tractor Trust, spent several months in the Detroit plants of Henry Ford. Last week in Izvestia he wrote of U. S. v. Soviet industry...
...shades of Ella Roole faded rapidly yesterday as attractive Mrs. Blsir Moody of Detroit, lightened the quiet background of the CRIMSON office with her youthful appearance. This was no Carrie Nation who came to speak on the evils of liquor; the girl in the brown and tan sports suit had charm, a new avenue of approach, which the recently formed Allied Youth Movement or, as one of her aides described it. Temperance Gone High Hat is using against liquor...
Last week a supercharged 800-h.p. Hornet motor flew from Detroit to New York (550 mi.) in 1 hr.. 47 min.. 21 sec., averaging 308.4 m.p.h. or more than five miles a minute. Tacked to it was a tiny fuselage just big enough to hold big Roscoe Turner, Hollywood's favorite flyer. Unofficially broken was the official world's land-plane speed record (304.98 m.p.h.) held by James R. Wedell, who built Turner's plane. A huge dust storm over the Alleghenies cut Turner's speed from a maximum of 340 m.p.h...
...inspired rise in commodities was more than offset by fear of a staggering drop in farmers' incomes. Power production was well above the same week of 1933 but a 2% decrease from the previous week was more than seasonal. Automobile production was still setting "not since" records, but Detroit was thick with reports that the industry had overshot demand. General Motors' retail sales in April were 48% above the same month last year but the March-April gain was only 8% against an eight-year average of 29%. Motormen began to suspect that not consumer demand but fear...
Four independents obtained contracts for less important routes, and contracts for three others were held up pending further investigation of the bidders' qualifications. Rejected were three bids, including that of Kohler Aviation Corp. for the Detroit-Milwaukee mail. Reason: vice president of Kohler Aviation Corp. is Richard W. Robbins, whom Mr. Farley ousted from the presidency of T.W.A. last month because he was present at the so-called "spoils conference...