Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long building of white marble and considerable magnificence on Monroe Street in the residential part of town. Its severely Hellenic design is carried through to the two new wings and the auditorium, which is called the "peristyle" and is a fairly exact reproduction of a Greek outdoor theatre. Detroit's late symphony conductor. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, thought its acoustics unsurpassed in the U. S.. and Theatre Critic fohn Mason Brown shared the transports of classical scholars when it was opened in 1933. The Museum's collection is as exceptional as its building. Both are the fruit...
...Indianapolis classic of U. S. auto racing was eight months away last week. But on a ramshackle half-mile dirt track on the outskirts of Detroit 33 chugging, sputtering little cars lined up before 10,000 spectators to run what the track's owner Don Zeiter, at least, regarded as Indianapolis in miniature. Its qualifying races had already been run off exactly like those at Indianapolis. Chief differences were the length of the race (150 miles instead of 500), the size of the track (½ mile instead of 2½), the size of the prizes ($5,000 instead...
Main item of interest at last week's convention was the railroad built by the Detroit club on a scale of 17/64 inch to the foot. It is powered by 18-volt direct current, has 1,500 ft. of rolled steel tracks laid 1¼ in. apart, a 9-ft. spot-welded steel replica of New York City's Hell Gate Bridge. Visitors chuckled at the signs erected along this road at points where construction was under way: WPA PROJECT-SLOW-MEN AT WORK...
Elected. Carter Glass Jr., 44, youngest son of the Senator from Virginia; to the presidency of the American Philatelic Society; in Detroit...
...great success if flavored with coffee. Intending to work out his idea at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh, he was surprised to learn that it had been tried before, was hopeless. But Bowman was getting nearer to his destined specialty. On his way to Detroit to take a job in an automobile plant, he met a chewing-gum salesman who was working the ''butcher knife deal." Within a year J. Warren Bowman himself was a topnotch gum salesman, exponent of the "Indian blanket deal" (one blanket with every 24 boxes) and part owner...