Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a Bowery "smoke joint" was closed last week by the local Prohibition Administrator, Major Maurice Campbell; many another closed through fear. Thirty purveyors of cheap alcohol were held under $2,500 bail for arraignment before a Federal grand jury. In almost every case, the alcohol in evidence was of the type used to keep automobile radiators from freezing. Despite the reassuring names of some "smoke" salesmen (Mike Whiskey, Frank Barri), almost all 30 were dealing in liquid death...
...plastic surgeon to three London hospitals and to the Royal Air Force. U. S. dentists know him as an honorary member of their national association. Sportsmen recall him. as playing golf for England against Scotland in 1908, 1925, 1926, as winning St. George's Grand Challenge...
...Yellow Coach & Truck Mfg. Corp., which is in turn controlled by General Motors. Taxi gossip has it that these 955 cabs, turquoise blue with a red stripe, will shortly displace the complaining Yellows as the largest fleet in the city. Their sudden prosperity is based upon the Pennsylvania and Grand Central terminal concessions, recently wrested from Yellow Taxi Corp., and calling for 800 to 900 cabs daily...
...June 29-Grand Prix de Paris races; at Longchamp, France...
...land from Columbia University for a long period at some $3,000,000 per year (TIME, Dec. 16 et ante). But the Metropolitan Opera's backers had other plans in mind. The Rockefeller scheme languished. Last week Manhattan heard that Mr. Rockefeller had been persuaded that his grand opera ideal was "too aristocratic," that he was now planning four centres of mass entertainment on his site, four theatres to house respectively Legitimate Drama, Vaudeville, Cinema and Television. A $200,000,000 group of buildings was described, centering around three skyscrapers. Manhattan's masses awaited confirmation from Mr. Rockefeller...