Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Ford acted characteristically. Day after he shut his plants, the London Evening Standard published an interview with him, given by transatlantic telephone at 6 a. m. (Detroit time): "The actual truth is that certain bankers are trying to obtain control of the Ford concern. Certain of my competitors are operating against me, supported by these bankers, with the object of preventing another Ford car from leaving the factory. . . . They succeeded for a few hours. . . . I am going straight out now to clean up the whole affair...
...Ford workers soon learned the cause. In Detroit, 6,000 employes of Briggs Manufacturing Co., which makes bodies for Ford, had walked out on strike. Engines, wheels, gears, tops might be ready, but without bodies new Fords could not be assembled. Because 6,000 workers wanted more pay, 100,000 others were thrown out of work...
...Michigan Department of Agriculture listened with interest to Maynard D. Smith, Detroit hotelman, as he propounded a program of agricultural colonization throughout the State on land forfeited for taxes. His idea, not unlike Henry Ford's, is to get the R. F. C. to finance families on 5 or 10-acre plots, close enough to cities and beet sugar factories so that the family could work for cash part of each year. Within 20 years, with small payments, it was estimated that the Government could be paid...
...Last week hearings began before a Senate Banking & Currency sub-Committee on a bill by Georgia's George to permit R. F. C. loans for school maintenance. Twenty-three cities wanted such advances, including Minneapolis. Houston, Detroit, Phoenix, Chattanooga...
...place sprouted a crop of nasty weeds like Calgary Eye-Opener, published by the ex-wife of Capt. Billy Fawcett. Out went innumerable local sheets like Manhattan's Metropolitan Home Journal. In came innumerable others like William H. Hanna's respectable Minneapolis Opinion, scandal-mongering Detroit Merry Go Round and Hollywood Peep Hole. A handful of woodpulps were junked, twelve published by Fiction House were suspended at one swoop. Babies: Just Babies was born. So were Beer, Metropolitan Mothers' Guide, Family Circle, Pastime, American Spectator, Brass Tacks, Common Sense . . . many, many & many another...