Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sonorously analyzed the Ghost Scene, across the stage behind him suddenly spooked a figure. It was not the Ghost. It was a young male embodiment in long knitted underwear. The audience guffawed. Old Bob did not see the apparition and the audience recognized it only as some University of Michigan fraternity neophyte. This year that ghost is the prime champion of human derelicts in U.S. politics, and he is recognized as Sheridan Downey, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in the great and screwy State of California...
...mile subway system which Chicago must start building before January 1, and must have substantially completed by June 30, 1940. To be tunneled at a depth of 35 feet through the stratum of blue clay underlying Chicago's 25 feet of largely-filled in elevation above Lake Michigan, its two lines will lead from existing "L" trackage on the North Side, shortcutting some trains into the "Loop" from outlying areas with time savings of as much as 16 to 20 minutes, and bringing rapid transit for the first time to the busy Milwaukee Avenue industrial district. In the "Loop...
Ever since 1903 when an upstart University of Minnesota team, coached by Yaleman Henry L. Williams, startled a select circle of U.S. football fans by holding Fielding H. Yost's famed point-a-minute Michigan team to a 6-to-6 tie, Minnesota and Michigan have furnished the No. 1 collegiate rivalry of the Midwest: the struggle for the Little Brown Jug that served as a water jug that day.* Through the decades Minnesota, winner of eleven Big Ten titles, became famed for its powerful lines that looked-to opposing teams-like a nightmare of Primo Cameras; Michigan, winner...
...owners promptly leased the right of way to Michigan Southern R.R. Since 1914 New York Central has leased the property, which now forms part of the Central's main-line track between Toledo and Jackson (Mich.). And while the Central has ceased to pay dividends, Erie & Kalamazoo has paid a dividend on its common stock as regularly as most railroads now apply for RFC loans...
...industrial average to a new 1938 high of 149.75, which was "confirmed" by a new peak since January of 30.91 for the railroad averages. Underwriters were heartened by the successful sale of a $37,500,000 refunding by Virginia Electric & Power Co. and a $42,000,000 refunding by Michigan Consolidated...