Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign countries being given the bee: the U. S. Tokyo newspapers suddenly began to notice the importance of U. S. markets. A Japanese airline official turned up in the U. S. to make arrangements for a Japanese-owned Guam-Tokyo link with the China Clipper. Another was in Manhattan expansively buying U. S. instead of German automobiles and machinery. Six Japanese goodwill fliers spanned the U. S. The Japanese knew very well that if the Divine Gale hit the U. S. too hard, it might turn around and blow a not-so-divine fleet across the Pacific...
...infantile paralysis for 50 years, but they still know practically nothing about the cause & cure of that dread disease. In trying to come to grips with poliomyelitis, they still clutch at brilliant, fantastic-sounding clues hit on from time to time by hard-working bacteriologists. Last week, at the Manhattan meeting of the International Congress for Microbiology, two new clues turned...
...ships to which the Italian Line transferred her. Unable to get either passage or refund from the Italian Line, she hurried to Havre and laid siege to the U. S. Lines office. After ten hours, company officials surrendered, signed on Miss Scheh as a member of the U. S. Manhattan's crew (official stenographer and typist), let her work her way home...
...worry of all broadcasters is how to make strategists, commentators, etc. earn their keep. One way (already registered at the U. S. copyright office) was suggested last week by Manhattan Press-agent Joseph P. Annin, a Wartime aerial reconnaissance officer. Annin's idea, which he got while traveling cross-country in an airliner, is to sell radio advertisers on the idea of distributing war maps and sets of colored pins to the audience, hiring military experts to digest the news of the day, analyze the tactics, then devoting five sponsored minutes each evening on the air telling...
...Manhattan, U. S. Minister to Portugal Herbert Claiborne Pell, old friend & college mate of President Roosevelt, sententious, well-stuffed socialite who delights in shocking his stumer friends, embarked for Portugal to resume his diplomatic duties. Asked if Portugal would become a hot spot, he replied: "I wouldn't be going back if I thought so. I'm no hero...