Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founded in 1873 by Charles Scribner's Sons, then taken over by the Century Co., St. Nicholas began to decline after World War I as children turned to movies, radio, comic strips, and children's tastes grew steadily more sophisticated. To hold its market St. Nicholas lowered its...
Unlike topflight executives of other major U. S. airlines, 35-year-old Jack Frye of Transcontinental & Western Air and his 43-year-old executive vice president Paul Ernest Richter, are tough, practical airlines pilots. Burly Jack Frye bats up & down the line through all kinds of weather in his Northrop...
> In several industries customers who had put in big rush orders began sending instructions to slow down deliveries. Perversely, some frightened sellers tried to speed deliveries lest the orders be canceled.
Index Down. Indicating a further decline in war-boom enthusiasm, TIME's Index of Business Conditions this week dropped from 100.8 to 99.4 (94.2 year ago). The smallness of last week's rise in commercial loans reflected business caution.
In The Bronx, Supreme Court Justice John E. McGeehan warned a jury panel that $500 worth of property had been stolen from his chambers in a few weeks' time, explained: "Nothing is safe around here unless it is nailed down. [Someone] even made away with my towels and soap...