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...Fresh Inflow. In 1935 the coiled tension of Harlem lashed out in a riot that began when a 16-year-old boy was seized stealing a cheap penknife in a white-owned variety store. This was the height of the Depression, and for months Negroes had been mesmerized by the nationalistic "buy black" speeches of a Philadelphia Negro who called himself Sufi Abdul Hamid (real name: Eugene Brown). The rumor spread that the boy had been beaten to death, and though it was false, the mobs left four dead, 100 injured and $1,000,000 in property damage, largely...
During World War II still another inflow of blacks to New York began. In the last 20 years, the city's Negro population has increased 2½ times, now stands at 1,200,000, or 15% of the total. More than half the new arrivals spilled over into ghettos in the other boroughs, creating huge new Harlems: Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, whose population has trebled since 1940 and is soon expected to pass Harlem itself; South Jamaica-St. Albans in Queens, where the Negro population has trebled in a single decade; Morrisania in the Southeast Bronx. Together with...
...personal savings, finance nearly half of its homes. But signs are cropping up that the long-green years are over. Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Savings and Loan Institute in Washington, S. & L. leaders weighed some disturbing statistics. Compared with last year, the net inflow of savings into federally insured S. & L.s dropped 53% in January and 7% in February-while savings deposits rose in the competing commercial banks...
...Swiss and Dutch financial centers operate with any degree of freedom. France permitted no foreign security issues until late last year. A German tax on foreign bond sales makes costs almost prohibitive, even though Germany attracts so much foreign investment capital that last week it moved to curb the inflow...
...Cincinnati surgeons, headed by Dr. James A. Helmsworth, did not try to sever the two great vessels and switch them. The job would have been forbiddingly difficult and almost certainly fatal. Instead, the doctors adopted a method devised by Swedish Surgeon Ake Senning: they rearranged the heart's inflow pipes, which are only half as big and therefore twice as suitable for surgery...