Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers and their employers were patched up, only to be renewed again. Nash workers, their pay difficulties straightened out, again raised the issue that they could not go back to work until Seaman Body Corp. (manufacturers of Nash bodies) settled with its workers. In the Detroit area, a strike threatened by the Mechanics Educational Society (tool & die makers) was called. More than 3,000 tool & die men walked out of 100 small job shops which would not grant their demands for a 20% wage increase, 7-hr. day, 35-hr. week. Last autumn the tool & die makers crippled the entire...
...American Airways' southern transcontinental route extends from Newark to Los Angeles by way of Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati. Louisville, Nashville. Memphis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth, El Paso. Of the former mail routes operated by independents, new contracts will be awarded between Salt Lake City and Great Falls, Detroit and Milwaukee, Washington and Cleveland. Among independents hoping for a piece of the new airmail subsidy is the Boston-Maine Airways operated by Paul Collins and Amelia Earhart, who want the Boston-New York mail contract formerly held by American Airways. Most of the old contractors, such as United...
First Game was played in Detroit where Chicago had not won a hockey game in two years. Both fast, light teams, unpopular with crowds all winter because they lacked power to play "open" hockey against heavier opponents, Black Hawks and Red Wings started by playing even more cautiously than usual against each other. Seasoned Lionel Conacher, most celebrated all-around athlete in Canada, made the first goal for Chicago near the end of the first period. Herb Lewis, captain and star left wing of Detroit's first forward line, tied the score in the third. In games...
...Wilmington, Del., Mrs. Jean Piccard, sister-in-law of Stratonaut Auguste Piccard, announced plans to pilot a balloon ascension near Detroit this summer. With her will go her husband to make scientific observations. Said Mrs. Piccard: "There really isn't much danger. . . . I'll know my two children are in good hands while I'm gone. We are anxious to avoid having to land in the ocean. And I'll be the one to worry about that...
Cubs 2White Sox 1 Detroit 7 Cincinnati 4 Yankees 4 Dodgers...