Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brittle. Even so, trains came into Grand Central Station as much as seven hours late, the Queen Elizabeth's sailing was delayed twelve hours, and 1,300 Brooklyn homes had their supplies of heating gas cut off. In Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Detroit and many another city, industrial gas and power supplies were slashed. Detroit's auto plants laid off workers by the thousands. In St. Paul, the cold halted construction work on an ice palace being built for a winter carnival, opening Jan. 31. At 20° below, the ice was too brittle to be cut into uniform blocks...
...appreciation of the "training and inspiration" that he received here as an undergraduate, famous Detroit art collector John S. Newberry, Jr. '33 is loaning part of his collection of drawings and water colors to the Fogg Museum. The exhibit will open on February 12 in Galleries II and III at the Museum and will continue throughout the month of March...
...penny away in his vault while, behind his back, a hand reaching through the window grabbed a stack of banknotes from a table. "While you're busy saving pennies you're losing dollars," read the ad. On page 14 the Miscellany department carried the following item: "In Detroit, Theater Cashier Doris Trask dropped a penny, stooped to pick it up, straightened to discover that somebody had reached in her cage, snatched...
Bowery Expert. Few modern Army officers have a background like Captain Tom Crocker. When his father died, Tom quit school at 17 and joined the Navy. After World War I he got a job as clerk in a Detroit police court and began to drink. First an alcoholic, then a dope addict, he lost his job, took to forgery, was arrested and finally committed to an insane asylum. Discharged at last, he began the same thing all over again. One night in a Detroit park, he recalls, "I got the jimmies-the D.T.s." At a Salvation Army headquarters, where...
...boss couldn't do anything worse than say no. So Edward Breslin, 21, a $45-a-week cub Hearstling on the Detroit Times and a rabid sports fan, screwed up his courage, walked up to the city desk, and asked if he could please go see the Rose Bowl game. City Editor John MacLellan surprised him. Instead of turning him down, the boss proposed a bet: if Breslin wanted to hitchhike out to Pasadena and crash the gate, all on $50 of his own, he could go ahead. If he made it, the Times would pay him back...