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Word: detroit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit (Hutchinson) 3, Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

...wartime excise tax on air and rail tickets (TIME, May 23). In the U.S., a 15% tax was still on. The knowing traveler simply mailed his ticket order to a Canadian office (or went in person if he lived at a border point such as Detroit or Buffalo) and saved himself the amount of the tax. Sample saving on a round trip from Washington to Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Tax Dodge | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...across the Delaware River from Philadelphia,' Palestinian and Olympia are expected to head the field of three-year-olds in the $50,000-added-Jersey Stakes. For Californians, Hollywood Park will feature the $25,000-added Will Rogers Handicap, in which Star Fiddle and Pedigree are entered. Boston, Wilmington, Detroit, Chicago, and scores of lesser U.S. tracks will also put their best equine feet forward this weekend?as will Toronto's Woodbine Park, where the best of the Canadian racing crop will run for the Sg-year-old, $10,000-and-50-guineas King's Plate (probable favorite: Epic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Devil Red & Plain Ben | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Some manufacturers were finding ways to cut prices while retaining all the features of their old higher-priced lines. The Detroit-Michigan Stove Co. brought out a new line of gas ranges to retail 12% to 20% below the market for competing ranges. With department-store sales slipping behind last year's, more industries were facing the problem of whether to cut production or take a chance with ingenious cost-cutting practices. In many cases ingenuity was already paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Stripping for Action | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Boston (Hughson) 7, St. Louis 5; Washington (Haefuer) 5, Cleveland 4; Detroit at New York (rain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

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