Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young & lithe enough to be worth a dime of any man's dance money, Helen Abney, 1 8, taxi-danced three January nights running in a thronged Detroit hall until she was ready to drop. When she could not raise her head from her pillow one morning, she thought she was just tired. When chills & fever racked her and her bones ached, she thought she had grippe. A rash breaking out on her face suggested scarlet fever or chickenpox. When the red spots became elevated and exuded pus, there remained no doubt that dancing Helen Abney was afflicted with...
...offset weight, size and cost, but noticeable success was achieved only in Germany, where Diesels light enough to power the Hindenburg were developed. Last week, however, famed Engineer Charles F. ("Boss") Kettering, who has long experimented with Diesels on his yacht, revealed that he too has found success. In Detroit, General Motors Corp., of which Boss Kettering is the inventive spark plug, opened the first factory in the U. S. for the mass production of light Diesel engines...
General Motors made most of the 200 U. S. Diesel locomotives. In its new $1,006,000 Detroit factory it will turn out a line of small (1 to 6 cylinders, 22 to 160 h. p.) lightweight Diesel engines at the rate of 50 a day, produce engines up to 1,200 h. p. at factories in Cleveland and La Grange, Ill. Secrets of GM economy are new light alloys and a production schedule using the same parts in engines of the same cylinder size. Suitable for direct drive operations on tractors, pumps, hoists and the like, the engines will...
Fiddler. Friend and onetime teacher of Stephen Etnier is Detroit's first-rate fantasist, John Carroll, whose place in the main stream of U. S. painting has always been a puzzle to pedants. During the last year Artist Carroll, who likes to ride with the Old Chatham Hunt Club, has been kept at his painting by his wife, Georgia, despite the acquisition of a fine white Irish hunter. Last week the Rehn Galleries hung a fresh collection of Carroll's diaphanous, warm, pink nudes, glinting pickaninny-like Negresses, superbly deft drawings. Done with less delicacy and more fire...
High scorers of the current major-league professional hockey season are the Boston Bruins, with a total of 32 points in 23 games. Low scorers are the World Champion Detroit Red Wings, with a total of 13 points in 25 games-an average of a little over a point a week...