Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: After our tourist bureaus spent oodles of money advertising that the map of Michigan is the Right Hand of Hospitality Extended you fellows call it the left hand palm-down, in TIME, July 4-5 article on "Electrified Thumb." Helpful, aren't you ? M. JORLING Saginaw, Mich...
Last week Administrator Hopkins' staff was busy checking over new projects submitted by local administrators for addition to their "back-logs"-work to be done when current projects are finished-plans to occupy 1,000 men for six months building a sewer and tunnel at Michigan Avenue and St. Clair Street, Chicago; 21,200 man-hours working the roads of Greene County...
Last week the dammed-up waters of the Saline River spilled through a generator at the little village of Milan. Mich, creating power for Ford Motor Co.'s 15th "factory in the meadow." All but three of the 16 are in Michigan within 50 miles of Dearborn, and the Milan factory is fairly typical; a good example of Henry Ford's back-to-the-farm hobby which also helps him make automobiles at a profit...
...Michigan resembles a left hand turned palm downward, and its remotest part is The Thumb. One day last fortnight in the little town of Ubly farmers from the three northern counties of The Thumb-Huron, Tuscola, Sanilac-gathered for a band concert, a baseball game, a celebration grander than any county fair. Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, a Huron County boy, was there to make a speech. But the biggest attraction in Ubly was a giant generator, whose 3,000 horsepower was ready, when the switch was pulled, to gallop over 542 miles of newly strung electric lines. After...
...them in Dearborn and the rest in dozens of other schools which he owns or supports. Chief centre of his experiments is Greenfield Village, whose schools, opened in 1929, are a part of Dearborn's city system. Some others: nearly a score of rural schools in Michigan; trade schools at the River Rouge plant; three schools in Sudbury, Mass.; seven rural schools and the famed Martha Berry Schools in Georgia; an agricultural institute at Boreham House near Chelmsford, England; a school for rubber workers' children, Fordlandia, 600 miles up the Amazon in Brazil...