Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fierce bravery of the Socialist defense and the effect it would have on the foreign popularity of little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. The final outcome was never in doubt, but for nearly 48 hours determined Socialists actually had the upper hand in Linz and Steyr (Austria's Detroit). For a brief time even the Heimwehr commander, theatrical Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, was surrounded. Victorious at last and with a handful of bedraggled prisoners, he announced magnanimously...
...Martin went to Manhattan, persuaded Simon & Schuster to sell him newspaper rights to the 513 pictures. The Register & Tribune started it at home. Circulation zoomed while book sales held up strong. Two months later Salesman Martin sold the Detroit News; next, the Boston Globe. The three papers combined reported an 80,000 increase in circulation, held it after the series ended. The Washington Star, Baltimore Sun, and the Philadelphia Bulletin fell into line. William Randolph Hearst began to feel the pinch, quickly ordered the syndicate series for all his papers in the 13 cities still open. Scripps-Howard rushed...
...airplane. Temperatures recorded included ?4° at Lynchburg, Va., ?6° at Washington, ?8° at Richmond, ?8° at Atlantic City, ?26° at Buffalo, ?12° at Toledo, ?34° at Sault Ste. Marie, ?10° at Duluth, ?2° at Chicago, ?16° at Detroit. Total death toll from cold: 40. *Biggest year's expenditure for the British dole...
...weather map of business activity last week there was a high pressure area over Detroit. For the first time in five years U. S. motormakers could not fill their orders. Henry Ford had already opened two additional assembly plants. Chrysler plants, slow to get new streamlined cars into production, were last week operating with 21,000 more workers than last year. Hudson had 24,000 orders on hand and a working staff double its January average. Nash estimated that it would deliver more cars in the first quarter of this year than in all of last. Blamed in part...
...Charles Edward Coughlin, radiorator of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower, utterly antagonistic to Mrs. Sanger's movement, brought down the house: "The Negroes are out-begetting the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic races in this country. So are the Poles. . . . Distribution is what we need. There aren't enough hungry mouths in this country to consume the wheat we raise...