Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, Mich...
Akron rubber workers began staging sit-downs in 1934, when John L. Lewis was only the hard-boiled boss of the hard-boiled Miners' Union. Akron was then known as the toughest anti-union town in the U. S. outside of Detroit. United Rubber Workers of America, later to join C. I. O., moved in in 1935. By the time this year's Sit-Down epidemic struck, both Akron's workers and Akron's businessmen were past the primary grades, thoroughly accustomed to the idea and practice of unionism. When Firestone Tire & Rubber...
...planes. The Bureau plans to set up three airport classifications-super-terminals with runways of 4,000 ft. in four directions, plus two miles of clear approaches; terminals with 3,500-ft. runways; limited terminals with 2,200-ft. runways. This means that such important stops as New ark, Detroit, Washington, Chicago, Kan sas City, St. Louis and Portland,. Ore. would be "limited" ports unless greatly improved...
...attack. . . . Recently Mr. Vanderlip notified the Reo management that he and his associates held substantial blocks of Reo stock and requested representation on the board. . . . That evidence has not yet been furnished." Next day however, the story was different after President Bates met with the Vanderlip group in Detroit. Satisfied that Mr. Vanderlip & friends were not bluffing, President Bates was willing to have four new members added to the board. Selected on the spot were Mr. Vanderlip Jr. and Manhattan Lawyer Herbert Wilson Smith, onetime President of Standard Gas Co. of Ohio. To be added at the stockholders' meeting...
...boys gathered on the half-mile pony track anext the Charles, and John Fugard of Evanston, Illinois, stepped out with "Butch". If was nip and tuck for the first half-mile, but Fritz Iwasko, the flash from Detroit, began to widen a considerable...