Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ruth Elder Camp, mop-headed Amelia Earhart Putnam, and the recluse Lindbergh; Armand Loti of the Yellow Bird who came from France to be present that night; Rear Admiral Byrd, Frank Courtney, Harry Connor. (Brock & Schlee, too, would have been there had they not been forced down flying from Detroit to Manhattan.) They were assembled not to be honored, but to honor belatedly Dr. James Henry ("Doc") Kimball of the New York office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, who has never flown but who is largely responsible for the success of every oceanic flight starting from the Atlantic coast...
...Liberty's will make him third largest annual circulation-holder in the U. S.* Macfadden announced last week that Liberty's editorial policy would be continued unchanged. Just what the terms of the sale were was not learned, but this much was known: The Detroit Daily, a tabloid resembling New York's Evening Graphic, was taken by Publishers Patterson & McCormick from Mr. Macfadden in the nature of a trade. Its name will be changed to the Detroit Daily Mirror. It will be edited by City Editor Frank Carson of the New York Daily News...
...Detroit, Mich., a young Jugoslav applied for naturalization papers, was asked his name. "It's Vazil Rasko Ferarrav- wait, I'll spell it for you." he replied. He did: Ferarravoceincmooceuigearmodccoui. Choler...
...Detroit young Bernard Lotus drank deep of stimulants, then climbed with his girl, into his automobile. During the next few moments he: drove over the curb and took the porch off a house, crumpling his fenders; raced a half block to a garage, drove in, offered to fight the garage-owner; chased his girl, who had then breathlessly departed, but failed to catch her; climbed Dack in his car, drove out of the garage and, speedily, into a parked car owned by one Fred Stoetzer; offered to fight about 50 men who gathered around the accident; offered to fight Stoetzer...
...equipped with Dr. Geer's overshoes had been flown for the past four months under worst conditions (just below 32% in moist atmosphere). The planes' flying performance was unaffected. Geer overshoes are to be shown the public for the first time at the National Aircraft Show in Detroit, April...