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...47th consecutive week power production stood above the figure for the same week of last year, showing an unseasonal gain of 17%. For the seventh consecutive week carloading ran ahead not only of 1933 but also of 1932. Output of bituminous coal, prime source of U. S. power, exceeded the levels of the winter of 1929-30 for the first time. Lumber production was at the highest volume since last August. Steel operations, now 47% of capacity, were expected to approach 55% in April. The burlap trade predicted the first active spring since 1928. It was estimated that the pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: State of Trade | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Sixty-nine years ago in the largest house on Manhattan's Washington Square was born H. (for Henry) Hobart Porter. His brother Seton Porter was born on 47th Street. Both grew up to be engineers. Hobart helped found the great firm of Sanderson & Porter which Seton later joined as a partner. In business as well as politics engineers sometimes become chief executives. Brother Hobart chose water for his province, Brother Seton whiskey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Brothers on Taxes | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Opening the doors of the clubhouse on Winthrop Place to the public the Pi Eta Club at 8.15 o'clock tonight will put on its 47th annual show "Knock on Wood," written, directed, and enacted by club members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL MEN ACT IN PI ETA'S PRESENTATION | 3/23/1934 | See Source »

...been Governors of the State. Educated in private schools in Providence, Maria Chapin went to New York in the '90s, began to teach small groups of her friends' children. In 1901, with seven teachers and some 75 pupils, she founded Miss Chapin's School on West 47th Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Death of Miss Chapin | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...Design for Living" -- Barrymore, 47th Street W.--The most insanely delightful comedy with the Lunts, and the author, Noel Coward. This must be seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 3/30/1933 | See Source »

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