Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over, Big & Little Steel were yoked to a new price structure at $50.51 instead of $56.27 a ton and they had enough orders for five months of operations at 50% of capacity. Their week of war had sold not just 1,000,000 tons to feed Detroit from October through Christmas, but something like 2,000,000 tons-enough to tide auto production over until the 1939 model year was nearly over. Result: the 1939 model cars were about $25 cheaper than the 1938, and $10 of that cut was put up by the steelmen...
...fire on wages? What then of wages generally, and labor peace? Will other prices follow down the price of steel? Can industry afford to buy materials months in advance in the face of threatening inventory losses and production curtailment? How soon will the auto-steel logjam break, so that Detroit can again lead U. S. business to another upturn? And, more philosophically, do price reductions pay when they don't coax new business out of hiding? Meanwhile, the copper industry demonstrated that Henry Ford's low price-big volume doctrine is still worth something. Last week, copper companies...
Charioteer. Alfred Barr was then 27, an associate professor of fine arts at Wellesley. Born in Detroit, brought up in Baltimore, son of a Presbyterian minister who had a taste for medieval art, he had majored in science until his last year at Princeton, intending to become a paleontologist. This training served him well when he came to deal with the data of Dada. After graduate work in art and archeology, he taught at Vassar, Harvard, Princeton, and launched at Wellesley in 1926 an ambitious course in modern art. It involved "driving a seven-or eight-wheeled chariot," handling...
...Detroit, Mrs. Thomas J. Middleton, Negro, hired a steam shovel to dig holes in her back yard. A dream had revealed to her that gold was buried there. Neighbors were annoyed by the dust, smoke and noise. Said Mrs. Middleton: "They needn't be so uppity. I catch them digging in my back yard themselves at night since I had my visions...
Chicago 3, Washington 2, (10 innings); New York 12, Cleveland 6; Boston 8, Detroit 3; Philadelphia 12, St. Louis...