Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert Mendelson's Notre Dame, with her Designer-Builder Clell Perry at the wheel: the Gold Cup, oldest U. S. Speed boat trophy; at the Detroit Yacht Club; with an average speed of 63,675 m. p. h. for three 30-mi. laps-a Gold Cup record...
...Second-place Detroit Tigers: a baseball game against the Washington Senators, 12-to-3 ; in which Rookie Rudy York, who got a chance when Catcher Mickey Cochrane was injured in midseason, hit his 17th and 18th homeruns of the month (August), to become the first batter to break famed Babe Ruth's record of 17 in one month (September 1927); at Detroit...
...Detroit last week assembled more than 200 people united by a common passion-the construction and operation of model railroads with such elaborate attention to detail and conformity to scale that they feel entitled to resent the word "toys." This was the third annual convention of the National Model Railroad Association, and its members discussed such things as the best ways of ballasting track and handling steam boilers with as much warmth as the operating vice president of the Southern would discuss parallel maintenance problems with the superintendent of his Atlanta division...
...Cronkhite of San Marino, Calif., who rides in the cabs of real locomotives whenever he can. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R. R. frequently borrows Mr. Cronkhite's equipment for its displays at fairs. The national association got under way three years ago, pushed by groups of Detroit modelers who believed that such an organization would impel manufacturers to a helpful standardization of parts. This turned out to be the case. Much progress was made last year...
...known aficionados of the hobby in the U. S. Editor and publisher of The Model Railroader and leader of the association is Albert Carpenter Kalmbach, who in actual practice would never oil his model locomotives with the full-sized, long-snouted railroad oil can he posed with at Detroit (see cut). When Albert Kalmbach was five years old he made such a remarkable drawing of a locomotive that his teacher thought he was lying when he claimed it as his work. Naturally the costs of model railroading vary according to the individual's means, but The Model Railroader finds...