Word: detroit
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Baseball fights used to be common in the days when most ball players were uneducated yokels. Nowadays they are rare. Last really celebrated baseball fighter was famed Ty Cobb, who taught Pitcher Whitehill the technique when Whitehill joined Detroit in 1923. Although crowds enjoy imbroglios like last week's and though at- tendance is usually increased by such incidents, club-owners feel that in the long run they harm the game. Feuds between clubs are likely to last a long time. Last week's fight was really an aftermath of a squabble last summer when Carl Reynolds...
...that he had refused an offer of $100,000 a year to take the job until the stock option was offered as an added inducement. Last week with Montgomery Ward selling at $22.25 he would have had a profit of $1,125,000 by exercising his option.¶ In Detroit, result of liquidation of two closed banks, clerks day by day thumbed alphabetically through lists of depositors sending out checks for 30% of the deposits tied up since Feb. 11 bringing a cumulative wave of belated Easter buying to stores (which had to take on extra employes) until a total...
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There was a time when Henry Ford was apparently intent on doing every kind of business incidental to the manufacture of automobiles. He provided himself with his own steel mills, his own glass works, his own credit corporation for financing retail sales, even his own railroad (the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton)-all the elements of a great vertical combination, except that for the most part they were, not combined, but erected. More recently he has apparently reversed his intent. As early as 1929 he disposed of his railroad. Last week he was actively dickering for the sale of his retail...
While Ford was dickering to sell his credit company, rumor last week had it that he was also dickering to sell his steel mills at River Rouge to U. S. Steel Corp. which has no Detroit plant. Formerly U. S. Steel's subsidiary, Carnegie Steel, with a plant at Duquesne, Pa., supplied about three quarters of General Motors requirements. Now National Steel has a plant in Detroit which with the advantage of short hauls on short notice has been able to capture much of the automobile demand. Partly in consequence National Steel has been better off than all other...