Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: . . . No doubt, the REA is to be lauded for its Thumb child. However, TIME has overlooked another public-spirited organization. . . . Detroit Edison bought the interests of an ill-managed, holding-company-owned public utility company in The Thumb in 1935. . . . In November 1935, 11,000 Thumb farmers were in need of rural electric service: within two years D.E.C. had supplied the needs of approximately half of them. Coop, as a result of its first three years, has extended its services to some 1,500 farmers at current date. It hopes to serve 4,000 to 5,000 when...
Sirs: . . " You speak of the $1,000 a mile charge made by the Cooperative for stringing its lines. You say that "private utilities had been charging customers from $1,500 to $2,500 a mile for stringing lines to their doors." So far as Detroit Edison Co. is concerned, their rate book shows that they charge $500 per mile for stringing the lines to their customers. If the customers connect to the line at the time it is strung, each customer receives a rebate of $100. If, then, there are five customers in any mile, the line-stringing costs...
...other automobile dealers who bought his sales ideas. But when Michigan auto workers went on strike dealers no longer felt like spending money. Soon business for Cliff Knoble dried up. Last week the consequences of Cliff Knoble's personal depression blossomed in a full-page advertisement in the Detroit Free Press...
...defined by Promoter Knoble's smoothly professional copy, function of the Alliance is first to collect information about the problems of the middle class and then to DO SOMETHING. What Cliff Knoble proposed to do, first for Detroit and then for other localities, he did not make clear. But the things about which he proposed to do something were made plain: 1) taxes, State and Federal; 2) labor disputes. Major emphasis was on taxation (in an M. C. A. pamphlet, eight of 15 listed objectives deal with reducing Michigan and Federal taxes and expenditures). Excerpts...
Last week Promoter Knoble appeared to be doing all right again. Alliance sales headquarters were housed in the same impressive office suite where Business Promotion Corp. still holds forth. Cliff Knoble counts on onlisting 50,000 followers in Detroit. Then, he figures, he will be ready to devise and broadcast his "Messages" for middle-classers everywhere...