Word: basements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...department store basement of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., Powel Crosley Jr. this week put his new midget automobiles on sale. First purchaser: Mrs. W. Averell Harriman. Box score for first day's sales: four coupes ($365), twelve sedans ($389), no trade...
...fire engines arrived at the scene in time to discover small wisps of smoke curling out of the basement window of the Lampoon building. Upon entering the cellar, the smoke-eaters quickly stamped out the blaze. The only casualty suffered occurred when one of the firemen stepped on a discarded gin bottle, slipped, and fell on a beer-can opener...
...vaults of the Cleveland Trust Co., overloaded with U. S. Government bonds, broke through to the third sub-basement yesterday...
...present time the team has very limited time for practice in the basement of Memorial Hall. It is hoped that if Riflery is recognized as a minor sport, the H. A. A. will arrange with the Department of Naval Science for more extensive practice time and better equipment...
...other crowds could be seen, swishing past its plate-glass panels like frilly fish in a bright aquarium. Occasion for these beautiful doings was the formal opening of the long-awaited, permanent home of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (since 1937 temporarily camped in offices and basement galleries of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center). In equal parts swank, sober and glamorous, the company (more than 6,000) included such varied personages as Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, ex-Premier Juan Negrin of Spain, Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. For them and for New York World's Fair visitors until...