Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Idea Man. Henry Weaver at 48 has been in the automobile business ever since he got out of Georgia Tech in 1911, returned to Eatonton to run a garage. Presently he became a mechanic in Detroit's early motor companies, got fired with monotonous regularity until he branched into sales. He did a turn as draftsman with Haynes Automobile Co., lost some money but learned how to be an executive in the short-lived Sun Motor Car Co., finally hitched his trailer to a star in 1918 by joining Hyatt Roller Bearing Co. then headed by Alfred P. Sloan...
With the slate thus wiped clean, with the new cars full of genuine mechanical improvements and priced below 1938 (though still above 1937), and with the public snapping up the advance models and ordering more, Detroit was sure its 1939 fashions would click...
...DETROIT-Wessel Smitten- Harper...
...Detroit is one of the best novels that has been written on an automobile factory, but it gives small comfort to the latter school of thought. The story of an ex-lumberjack who hates the conveyer belt and dreams of going into the clam-digging business, it is the work of a University of Michigan graduate, now 44, who received "a sort of scholarship" in a large Detroit factory (presumably Ford's), fled to Southern California "to get away from the roar and thunder of the automatics in the factory and the climbing production figures on the big chart...
...counselors in each club were assisted in the brief preparation by six fellow club-members. They are, for the Powell Club: John T. Binkley Jr., Houston, Texas; George B. Lester, San Remo, Italy; R. Gordon Scott Jr., Dedham; Irvin L. Stephenson, Salt Lake gles 14; Green Bay Packers 28, Detroit Lions 7; Chicago Bears 31, Washington Redskins...