Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...codes. NRA was almost as busy settling strikes and getting union men back to work as it was in creating new jobs for the unemployed. The coal strike hinged directly on the coal code which required the President's direct intervention (see p. 11). In the East 50,000 silk workers went on strike in protest against lumping their trade with cotton and rayon for code purposes...
...when he tentatively approved four more building projects. They were: $5,184,000 to Hillside Housing Corp. for some 115 apartment houses in The Bronx, N. Y.; $2,965,000 to Hallets Cove Garden Homes, Inc. for 31 apartment houses on the Queens bank of New York's East River; $4,460,000 to the Community Plan Committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce to replace 750 slum buildings with 200 new houses; $168,000 to a Raleigh corporation to build apartments convenient to the faculty and students of North Carolina State College. In all cases the new apartments...
...that astute big game fisherman, Novelist Zane Grey, traveled from the Pacific coast, where taking big tuna had been studied and solved, to East Jordon Bay, Nova Scotia. There he tied into and landed a 758-lb. "horse mackerel" that set a world's record and started a new fashion in Atlantic game-fishing. Last week, after many cruises and much patient observation, a slim, 22-year-old college boy duplicated Fisherman Grey's feat and came within 93 pounds of the present world's record, with by far the biggest tuna ever landed...
...opening an account in a European bank and either leaving the funds in foreign currency or buying gold in the open market; 2) buying U. S. securities having a European market, selling them abroad; 3) buying foreign bonds which are payable in gold, particularly French, Swiss and Dutch East Indian obligations; 4) buying U. S. commodities (handiest: cotton), shipping them to Europe where they are sold and the proceeds left. But with one-third already clipped from the dollar, bankers believe exporting capital now is no more than locking the coop after the bird has flown...
John G. McCrory, 73, founder of McCrory Stores Corp. (5?-&-10? chain), resigned as board chairman that he might be free to bid for the bankrupt properties. Farm-born Merchant McCrory, who opened his first store in Scottdale, Pa. in 1882 and who branched until he had peppered the East and South with 244 units, sold control to Merrill, Lynch & Co. two years ago. Because it could not obtain usual seasonal bank financing, the chain was placed in bankruptcy last January...