Word: hub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many people know that the longest bar in the United States is right here at home in the sleepy old Hub in spite of the luxurious splashes to be found dotting Manhattan...
...fashion at the back of the house. But in ten new boxes built in an old-fashioned semicircle downstairs, those who had the desire and the price could see and be seen at this week's opening. It was among the goldfish and the bull-fiddles in the Hub Store office of the late George Lytton that the new Chicago Grand Opera Company was born. George Lytton, who died fortnight ago of heart trouble (TIME. Dec. 18), and Banker George Woodruff did the figuring. A five-week season, they decided, could be put on for a little less than...
...Eighteen years ago Henry C. Lytton, 69, retired as active head of The Hub, one of Chicago's big medium-priced clothing stores. He turned his job over to his son George Lytton. Last fortnight Son Lytton died. Six days later Father Lytton, now 87, sat down at his son's desk, once more became Hub's president...
Every year for seven years Father Hub-bard has gone to explore this lurid peninsula, accompanied by three or four husky footballers. He has burned off his shoes scrambling up the sides of volcanoes which other scientists had thought extinct, has gone down inside them to find he could melt copper twelve inches below the lava surface. Marooned by storms, he has used his sled dogs for food. In 1930 he took the first pictures of Aniakchak; the next year, with a pilot, he made the first airplane flight over it (narrowly escaping death when air currents rushing into...
There is no doubt that as far as some plays are concerned, Boston is cruel, very cruel. But for Pulitzer Prize winners, motion pictures, wrestling bouts and champion hockey the Hub is the Town of Towns...