Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Guy Holt, 42, publisher, director of Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill book-publishing subsidiary; of a heart attack following amebic dysentery contracted at last year's Chicago Fair (TIME, March 19 et ante) ; in Manhattan...
Hundreds of portly, earnest, grey-haired gentlemen were playing with toys in Manhattan last week. They fondled dolls, pushed kiddie-cars, ran trains, played blocks eight hours a day. It was the annual U. S. Toy Fair, to which go toy buyers from nearly every big store in the U.S. to place their orders for next Christmas...
...more U.S. toymakers whose wares were spread over several floors of the Toy Center (No. 200 Fifth Ave.) and spilled into the Hotel McAlpin, this year's fair was a milestone. It marked the 20th anniversary of the ''birth'' of the industry in 1914 when the flow of German products was abruptly cut off. Since then the domestic industry has grown 300%, now has a retail market of $200,000,000 annually...
Backbone of the toy trade is the standard low and medium priced lines whose sales during Depression ranked in stability with food, clothing, shelter. Prices at the fair last week were up 10% to 20% but toymen reported the best early buying in years. Last year fair buying was poor, yet the final Christmas rush was so heavy that they were unable to fill orders...
...jovial, redheaded president of Toy Manufacturers of the U.S.A., Inc. Lehman Co. of America (more specifically of Cannelton, Ind.) has been making nursery furniture since 1876. The business is now run by four third generation toymaking Lehman brothers of which the oldest and wisest is William Charles. At the fair last week, the Brothers Lehman's pride & joy, was a 275-lb. high chair, built for display, from which no baby could escape. Even an adult locked in behind the tray cannot overtip...