Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cord in Detroit Sirs...
Startling error of omission in your airmail map (TIME, April 23, p. 24) is "the "Before Cancellation and After" route of American Airways from Buffalo, across Canadian soil, through Detroit and into Chicago. Cartographer and reporter both failed to delineate accurately any but the Newark-Buffalo portion of Mr. Cord's Newark-Chicago ''Valley Route." . . . The route is too important to omit. With its inauguration May 3, 1933, Mr. Cord's American Airways became the first transportation company to put geographically off-line Detroit on a direct New York-Chicago trunk line. How important this...
...Finnish High Court last week passed sentence upon the spy ring of 28 men and women it had been trying behind locked doors for nine weeks (TIME, April 9). To a 27-year-old graduate of the University of Michigan and onetime school teacher in a Detroit suburb, Arvid Werner Jacobsen, the judges gave a sentence of five years at hard labor. In Michigan his wife Sally said: "Arvid took a university fellowship in Finland and then found out he was expected to give dangerous information." The Finnish police charged that Arvid had been the ring's paymaster...
...telephoto project was the Baltimore Sun, which was also the first newspaper in the U. S. to install a Morse telegraph wire and a linotype machine. Other underwriters included the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Times, Washington Star, Washington Post, Philadelphia Bulletin, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland News, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Globe Democrat, Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal, Minneapolis Tribune, Des Moines Register and Tribune, Omaha World-Herald, Milwaukee Journal, Miami Daily News, Dayton News, Buffalo News, Buffalo Courier-Express, Syracuse...
...against $280,000 in the same period of 1933 was more than the total amount paid out in dividends all last year. One good reason for National's amazing record is the strategic location of some of its plants in the centre of the Detroit automobile industry. Questioned about a report that he had been offered a $1,000,000 annual salary from another steel company, Chairman Ernest Tener Weir last week refused to name the bidder, but declared: "I'm glad I didn't accept...