Word: 42nd
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...block is now valued at $10,000,000 or over $300 per sq. ft. A few blocks away, at Wall St. and Broadway, a square foot is worth $600, while some plots in the district run to $800. No 1 Broadway is worth $200 per sq. ft., Broadway at 42nd $400, 42nd and Fifth Ave. $500. The land where the Chrysler Building stands is set at $250, while across Lexington Ave. the Hotel Commodore's real estate is estimated to be worth $300. The shopping district at Fifth Ave. and 57th St. commands $350, the less fashionable region...
...should Artist Kreisler stand on the corner of 42nd Street and Broadway in the guise of a beggar and play the "Caprice Viennois" I predict that he would assemble one of the biggest listening audiences ever to crowd this corner, until he was chased by Whalencops...
...ghastly, unparalleled famine which continues to ravage certain Chinese provinces (see map), a famine so titanic that the Red Cross, despairing, has ceased to give aid. At least 8,000.000 people have already died. Sole agency of succor is the American Board of Famine Relief, 205 East 42nd St., Manhattan...
...student drinking was not general, three who thought it was, one who thought it was increasing. Declared Dr. Poling: "There is less drinking among young people than at any time in the past eight years. Let us stop slandering our sons and daughters! . . . Neither in Washington Square nor in 42nd Street nor in Hell's Kitchen are there as many places where liquor is sold as before Prohibition...
...Great American Novel has never been written, perhaps never will be. But Author Dos Passos has made a bold bid for it. Certainly no U. S. novel has ever been more comprehensive than The 42nd Parallel, none has ever given a broader, more sweeping view of the whole country. At the opposite pole from Author Thornton Niven Wilder (TIME, Feb. 24) who writes neat, classical tales of other lands. Author Dos Passos unwinds a rapid, impressionistic, five-reel cinema of his own U. S., from 1900 to the War. Of more ambitious scope tha Cineman David Wark Griffith...