Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spread. Some steel prices dropped as much as $11 a ton or up to 20%. Characteristically, competing automen disputed Ford's claim for credit in securing the reduction. Meanwhile, large steel orders by the motormakers are probably two months off, for the auto companies have enough steel on hand to last until large scale production begins on 1940 models and want to be sure their big buying is done at the bottom, not on the way down. Aggressive National Steel Co., always up front among the price cutters, admitted that it didn't "know what the price...
...list American as the largest unit of a growing industry. American is glad to have the more active market on the Big Board, for it may be obliged to issue more shares to improve its current weak cash position. Due to heavy purchases of new planes, its cash on hand is only about $1,030,000. Though it has still to pay a dividend, American sold last week at $25, within $1.25 of its 1939 high...
Died. Mrs. Edward Lascelles, 50, sister-in-law of Princess Mary's husband, the Earl of Harewood; by her own hand (shooting) ; in Lutterworth, England...
...Albright Art Gallery. Mr. Goodyear knew a number of good men to have on the board of trustees, among them Harvard's eminent scholar and mentor of curators, Professor Paul Joseph Sachs. As Professor Sachs returned from a trip abroad in June 1929, Mr. Goodyear shook his hand and asked him to name the ablest candidate available for the directorship of a modern museum. He named Alfred Hamilton Barr...
...Manhattan, Housewife Anna Abdou invaded a classroom in Public School 78, an ax in one hand, two iron stove legs in the other, screamed: "I hate kids. I'm going to kill you all." While the teacher tried to calm her, then tried to ignore her, Mrs. Abdou smashed doors, desks, radiators. Arrested, she explained that the school children persistently threw stones through her windows...