Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prime, lusty veterans of the Spanish-American war also encamped last week. They convened in Denver, Col., went on record as favoring greater pensions, elected for Commander-in-Chief Fred Warren Green, the Governor of Michigan who does not cash his pay checks (TIME, Sept...
...Improvement and Public Service of New Jersey (its subsidiary) are both Mellon-controlled, and are expansions of the original United Gas Improvement Company which supplied gas to Philadelphia. Commonwealth and Southern Corp. is a holding company for Commonwealth Power Corp., which in turn operates companies all the way from Michigan to Georgia. Its largest single holder is American Superpower which has some 10,000,000 shares. Allied Power & Light is also a holding company, operating chiefly in the middle west, its list of operating companies partly duplicating the Commonwealth & Southern group. Columbia Gas & Electric centres in Ohio and West Virginia...
...merged bank planned soon to acquire Bank of Detroit and eight smaller institutions in and around the city. With capital assets of $75,000,000, deposits of $350,000,000, the new bank christened Guardian Detroit Union Group, Inc. ? will be largest financial structure in the history of Michigan banking...
...followed his exposition on special furnaces in which gases are used to surface steel. Metals absorb gases, a phenomenon only now being put to industrial use. Konel Metal. News of a new and valuable alloy was despatched to the Congress by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Erwin Foster Lowry, 38, Michigan-born Ohio State graduate, had compounded nickel, cobalt and ferrotitanium. Result was a metal which grew stronger the hotter it was heated. Other metals become weaker with heat. Mr. Lowry's alloy has a tensile strength...
...phantom first downs across an empty field and plunging ferociously at a tackling dummy. Yale heard that Freddy Loeser would play center this season despite the fact that he fractured his skull in an automobile accident during the summer. At Annapolis was Johnny Gannon who helped the Navy tie Michigan last year. Discarding the huddle system, Columbia rehearsed two crack, barking quarterbacks, Liflander and Joyce. Princeton's fleet Eddie Wittmer turned up, sole survivor of a first-string backfield otherwise dispersed by graduation. At Stanford, giant Center Walter Heinecke reported, despite poor health which may keep...