Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biting wind whistled across Detroit City Airport one day last week as the doors of the largest airplane hangar in the world were rolled hack to reveal what U. S. aircraft manufacturers had to offer for 1932. Within the hangar some 50 air- planes of assorted sizes stood among upright pillars disguised to look like tree trunks. No decoration scheme could conceal the fact that there was more empty floor space than in any previous National Aircraft Show. The planes on display numbered only half of last year's. But the exhibitors assured each other that they, who had answered...
Died. Henry Martyn Leland. 89, "Grand Old Man of the automobile industry"; after a month's illness; in Detroit. A tool maker in the U. S. Springfield Arsenal (rifles) during the Civil War, he invented the barber's clippers while later employed by Brown & Sharp, machinery manufacturers. After building naphtha launch engines, Motormaker Leland turned to automobiles, produced the first Cadillac in 1904, later sold out to General Motors Corp. In 1917 he organized Lincoln Motor Co. to produce Liberty Motors for the Federal Government. Converted to automobile production after the War, the Lincoln company failed...
Dark horse of the play-offs were the Montreal Maroons, who finished third in the International Group. Playing against Detroit, the Maroons last week played a 1 to 1 tie in the first of a two game series to be decided by the total number of goals scored. In a similar series, Major Frederic Mclaughlin's Chicago Black Hawks, a strong team which has played erratic .hockey this year, won, 1 to 0, against the -Toronto Maple Leafs, whose energetic manager, Connie Smythe, often occupies a box seat instead of the players' bench .because he considers it good luck...
Things were astir in Detroit last week. Businessmen lunching at the Recess Club were glad to forget the lambasting their favorite industry received during the first two months of the year. That U. S. automobile production had dropped 40% from the same period in 1931, that February's output had been 2,000 below January instead of showing the usual gain, did not worry them as much as it had. Their thoughts were on the present and future instead of the past. In the present was the industry's big spring sales drive, to be mightier than ever...
Among the other prices, for which the motoring public has been waiting almost three months, are: V8 de luxe sedan, $645; V8 chassis, 370; and L4 tudor sedan, $450. All prices are F.O.B. Detroit, shipping charges to Boston amounting to about...