Word: 47th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oldtime patrons of Manhattan's National Horse Show occupied their boxes at Madison Square Garden as usual last week but there were times when they seemed to shiver slightly. At times the 47th show looked like a rodeo, at times like a sham cavalry battle. The Garden shook with the clatter of rough riders, trick riding, polo, mounted basketball, and police squads knocking one another's hats off with sticks. The National Horse Show Association's new president, J. Spencer...
...typical examples: one room in Fred F. French's Tudor City, $55 against $75; seven rooms and three baths on 86th Street just off Fifth Avenue, $225 against $342; four rooms in Jackson Heights (big suburban development 20 min. from Manhattan) , $80 against $95. At Park Avenue and 47th Street, ten-room apartments have been offered at $500. In the upper 80's near Park Avenue, six rooms are generally available at $150, four at $125. A five-room duplex in the smart Gracie Square section was offered at $166. In most cases the landlords have been unwilling...
Quiet Graham Bethune Grosvenor was president of wide-flung Aviation Corp. for two years when he was succeeded by hardbitten Frederic Gallup Coburn. President Coburn had served approximately two years last week when suddenly he relinquished the executive office on the 47th floor of Manhattan's Chanin Building to a broad-framed young man with a grin and a pipe. It was not surprising that the name of the president-elect, La Motte Turck Cohu, should be better known in Wall Street than in airway operations. Avco, which has yet to show black ink on a profit & loss statement...
...omniscient i.ooo-page volume (most-called-for reference book in the Library of Congress) with its facts large & small - from an analysis of the latest U. S. census to the manner of addressing an archdeacon? The answer was "No." but not everyone knew it until last week when the 47th annual edition appeared. The publisher is, of course, the Scripps-Howard organization, owner of the World-Telegram. But the book is still called The World Almanac & Book of Facts; its cover still bears the familiar design of the ugly gilt dome of the old World Building, and its editor still...
Following the 47th, 48th and 49th annual meeting of The Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers in New York City last May, a Mr. Bill Furth of your magazine wrote a lengthy article on the organization (TIME, May 25), and the meeting was broadcast in TIME'S March of Events Weekly Program. As a result of this activity on your part something like 50 new members have joined and received their degrees of Fellow Pumper. Included in this number was Lunsford P. Yundell, president of the Mohawk Mining Co., who pumped a pipe organ in Danville...