Word: 34th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tobacco Road. After seven and a half years, the 3,180th and last performance of history's longest continuously running drama was signalized by no valedictory speeches or mortuary effects. But in the third row sat slight, beaming Francis De Valiant, who was seeing the play for the 34th time and is, symbolically enough, advertising director of Fairchild Sons, Inc., New York undertakers...
Plump, sleepy-eyed Photographer Max Peter Haas one afternoon last week was sitting in his office, six floors up from the busy corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in Manhattan. He had just loaded his camera when he heard shots in the street. Out dashed Photographer Haas, camera in hand, and followed the sound of gunfire toward 35th Street...
Features of the new line include doorless telephone booths soundproofed to keep out the roar of trains, promenades in & out of the elaborate 34th Street station by which one can walk all the way to 42nd Street. Proud but not satisfied is the city's Board of Transportation. Included in plans for the far future : an East Side subway to replace the 2nd and 3rd Avenue elevateds, a subway under Central Park, four new tunnels under the East River and one to Staten Island...
...Monday, November 25, colleges, business concerns and homes will receive letters containing the 1940 Christmas Seals as the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association launches its 34th Annual Seal Sale. These letters have become a Christmas tradition and through them each year people are given an opportunity to aid in the campaign against Tuberculosis, the disease which is still the leading cause of death in the age period from...
...have shot down 191 airplanes since Feb. 11th. This was 41 more than the entire Finnish Air Force at the beginning of the war. And that drive has netted the Russians a great store of small arms. As if to counteract these losses the Finns last week routed the 34th Tank Brigade north of Lake Laatokka, captured 105 tanks, twelve armored cars, six guns, 200 trucks, left 2,000 dead Russians...