Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, last week, one Wilbur Day was haled into court for carrying concealed weapons. He said he had no money to retain a lawyer...
...going to risk everything we've got to create useful work for just as many people as possible." At that time 70,000 men were working at the Ford Dearborn factory. Last week 1,300 who did not work there, but wanted to, gathered on a Detroit street corner. Quietly they began marching to the River Rouge plant to ask for jobs. At the Dearborn city line their number had doubled, their quietude had yielded to aggressiveness. Fifty Dearborn police tried to turn them back. Out from the mob burst a woman, crying: "Come on, you cowards!" Police went...
...limestone. More than 50% of the limestone comes from the great quarries of Indiana Limestone Co. Indiana limestone went into Washington's new Department of Commerce Building, New York's Empire State Building and Grand Central Terminal. Chicago's Tribune Tower. Detroit's General Motors Building. Only two months ago the company received the largest order in its history-3,200 cars for Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (Radio City). The company has developed a long list of by-products including quick lime, pulverized limestone for fertilizer, fluxing stone for blast furnaces, a powder for tennis...
Atlantic City teachers took a voluntary 10% pay cut month ago. Cincinnati teachers are almost certain to get one. Teaching appointments are now on ''unemployment emergency" basis, which means that new teachers may not be appointed if there is already a wage-earner in the family. Schools in Detroit may be closed a month early if necessary to balance the budget...
Relief. Hard though their own lot was, school teachers made various contributions to charity, chiefly in the form of lunches, clothes for poor children, in Philadelphia, Spokane, Denver, Cleveland, Detroit, Boston, Waterbury (Conn.), Dedham (Mass.), Akron (Ohio). In New York City, teachers have been giving 2% of their salaries. Last month the scot was raised to 5%,. Many grumbled, but last month's total doubled previous ones. Chicago teachers, in spite of near-destitution, maintain free lunches...