Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caught Shortless. In Washington, U.S. Senator Homer Ferguson was informed by a Detroit drygoods wholesaler that underwear-short Detroit men were reduced to buying ladies' panties...
There are twelve other TIME News Bureaus I haven't the space to tell you about this week - offices in Paris and Chicago, Rome and San Antonio, Mexico City and Boston, Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Detroit...
...manager's daydream. "Just let me worry about the club" is one of his favorite remarks, and he has worried his well-heeled, star-studded club to eight American League pennants, seven world championships. This year, although they have stayed within shooting distance of the league-leading Detroit Tigers, the Yankees have generally looked like also-rans...
During the night the Great Lakes pleasure ship Hamonic moved through Lake St. Clair and up the St. Clair River from Detroit and Windsor. An hour after daybreak she eased into the dock at Point Edward, Ont. Her 247 passengers, most of them Americans, got up drowsily for a picnic ashore. Later, 80-odd more passengers would arrive from Toronto. Then the Canada Steamship Lines' 36-year-old ship would shove off for Duluth, Minn, as she had done many times for many summers...
...them was the teak-decked, 56-ft. cutter Blitzen (once owned by Tobacconist Dick Reynolds). Shortly after her nine-man Detroit crew finished beefing over losing an hour by changing to a storm mainsail, most of them got seasick. The crews of the other three racers got sick first, and never did get their storm mains...