Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan is contiguous to more fresh water than any other State in the U. S. Four of the five Great Lakes provide all but two of Michigan's borders. Yet within 50 miles of fresh water in Michigan there is an inexhaustible supply of salt water. From briny depths 1,200 ft. or more beneath the earth's surface the 39-year-old Dow Chemical Co. daily pumps thousands of gallons of water from which it makes hundreds of products. Seat of the briny grand duchy of Dow is Midland, whose citizens once brought suit against Founder Herbert...
President of Dow Chemical since his father died in 1930 has been Willard Henry Dow. 39, who last week was named a director of the American Chemical Society for 1938. A graduate of Michigan (Class of 1919), he worked as a Dow chemist for five years, became assistant general manager in 1926. Not the great chemist the late Dr. Herbert Henry Dow was, Son Willard Henry has maintained the secure and independent position of Dow Chemical Co. by proving himself a competent manager...
...have one thing in common: labor trouble. Indeed, Detroit newspapers no longer consider a Briggs strike news until it approaches in violence the 1933 walkout which forced Henry Ford to shut down. In the opinion of Labor, working conditions in the Briggs plants are a disgrace to Detroit. When Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy was Detroit's mayor, a citizens' committee was appointed to look into Briggs labor policies with results by no means complimentary to the management. A Motor Products strike ended last summer after ten months of bickering between competing unions, but it failed...
...years ago, never heard an opera until this season. Said Betty Jaynes after reading her notices: ''Now I shall not go to school any more. I shall just sing and sing and sing." Preparing to join the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra. Elizabeth Vandenberg, pretty, blonde daughter of Michigan's Republican Senator, gave a piano recital before Manhattan's Beethoven Association...
Most outstanding was Dick Degener, graduate of the University of Michigan in 1935, intercollegiate high diving champion for three years, and Olympic springboard diving champion, crowned in Berlin in 1936: He has since turned professional, as have all the others who are appearing with him in the aquatic show at the Arena...