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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City's smart little ex-Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, wrote his second song in 25 years (the first: Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?). Excerpts from In Our Little Part of Town...
...hole in the front of the neck, at the point where a collar button usually rests. Through this hole larynx-less patients (mostly men) do their breathing. But they cannot talk aloud, for their breath gushes up in a storm from their lungs, whistles out through their necks, and first requirement for speech is a vibrating column of air in the throat. They sometimes manage to produce a squeaky whisper, using only their mouths and palates...
...Cook County set up the first blood bank...
...spite of big dividends, stocks first stagnated, then slumped to 148.47 on the Dow-Jones average...
...over August were September orders. Better yet, for the first time in ten years October bookings equaled September's, topped 1938 by 25%, put the ten-month average 21% over last year. By month's end unfilled orders were 51% above...