Word: 48th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President could thus add 39 Danish ships to the U.S.-British merchant marine; later he could commandeer some 20 or 30 Belgian, Netherlands, Rumanian and French ships, including the 83,423-ton Normandie, now quietly rusting at her 48th Street pier in Manhattan...
Fortnight ago, on the fat Marshal's 48th birthday, the Hamburger Fremdenblatt claimed that the father of all the Görings was none other than Duke Albert of Brunswick, great-grandson of Henry the Lion, great-great-grandson of Henry II of England, whose daughter Matilda married into the German royal house of Saxony. To welcome "Iron Hermann" into the ranks of royalty, the city of Brunswick, where Henry the Lion is buried, sent him a replica of that ancestor's statue...
...students who believe in material aid to Great Britain short of war, we wish to urge all the Harvard students who possibly can to attend the national Student Union convention in New York City, December 27-30, at the Fraternity House, 110 West 48th Street...
...minded U. S. dancer is a slim, dark-haired woman named Martha Graham, who 15 years ago left a job with the Greenwich Village Follies to try her foot at higher-browed steps. Ex-Showgirl Graham's first serious show was given in 1926 in Manhattan's 48th Street Theatre, backed by $11.25 which she had saved. A deficit of more than that would have sent her back to the Follies. The box office made a profit ($2) and Martha went...