Word: detroiter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Joseph Thuma ("Joe") Schenck, 38. tenor half of "Van & Schenck," variety's, famed, "highest-salaried" ($3,000 weekly) male song team; suddenly, of heart disease; at Detroit...
Heredity is an important cause of hardness of hearing or total deafness. Some children are born deaf and dumb. Others seem to have a "nervous deafness." Dr. Emil Amberg of Detroit noted that this "nervous deafness" is "in the upper ranks of society much more frequently in females than in males. The subjects of it are generally of a sallow complexion, of a phlegmatic disposition, with a thin, cold skin and languid circulation...
...Brandt, the American Austin was exhibited this week in dealers' showrooms throughout the country and will be making retail deliveries early in July. Austin men say that dealers have ordered 183,000 Austins, priced at $445 F. O. B. Butler (Ford roadster, $435; Ford coupé, $495, F. O. B. Detroit; Chevrolet roadster and touring, $495; Chevrolet coupé, $565, F. O. B. Flint, Mich.; Durant coach sedan, $725, F. O. B. Detroit...
Brock & Schlee. From Detroit and the routine of commerce re-emerged last week Edward Frederick Schlee and William S. Brock (Schlee-Brock Aircraft Corp ), once famed as world flyers (TIME, Sept. 12, 1927). Stepping into a Wasp-powered Lockheed Vega at Jacksonville Beach, Fla. they set a new record of 31 hr. 58 min. elapsed time for round-trip flight across the U. S. Their route to and from San Diego. Calif, was 800 mi. shorter than that (Roosevelt Field, L. I. to Los Angeles) over which Capt. Frank M. Hawks made his record of 36 hr. 48 min. last...
June 23-27-Eighty-first annual session of the American Medical Association; at Detroit...