Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, baffled John Public continued to burn 1,000,000 tons of coal a day. At Norfolk, whence much coal is transshipped by water to eastern cities, bunkers were nearly empty. Manhattan subways reduced service to the point where trains at peak hours carried four instead of the usual three passengers per seat. When all but a few A. F. of L. and non-union mines shut down last week, less than a month's supply for the U. S. remained aboveground, and much of that was hoarded by big users. Madam Secretary squeaked in Washington...
...especially delicate for Franklin Roosevelt. Abandoning all pretense of innocence, he telegraphed optimistically to Manhattan: ". . " The differences of viewpoint . . . appear not to be insurmountable. . . . The public interest is paramount. ... As President of the United States, I caution the negotiators on both sides to keep this in mind...
John Husted tried three times to get into the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Best he could manage was a job on a passenger ship as a yeoman, the maritime equivalent of a male stenographer. Then he got a job in a shipyard, a wife, an apartment in Manhattan. When 29 ships and 10,000 officers & men of the U. S. Navy hove in for the World's Fair last fortnight, ex-Yeoman Husted took out his faded blue uniform, adorned it with new buttons, new stripes. By a kind of wishful magic familiar to more men than would ever...
...national director of the Writers' Project was accused by one of his erstwhile supervisors of inspiring a sit-down strike in which some 200 literary WPA-sters seized and held the writers' headquarters in Manhattan...
...world there was no happier man last week than Manhattan Banker William Woodward. Sitting in his box at ancient Churchill Downs, the 63-year-old millionaire watched his big bay colt, Johnstown, parade from the paddock with seven other top-notch U. S. three-year-olds-all that were ready to start of the 115 nominated last February-for the 65th running of the Kentucky Derby...