Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since it was first formed in 1924 by a handful of party stalwarts in Chicago, the Worker has had a rocky history; its first editor was Party Philosopher J. Louis Engdahl, and its first circulation-drummer, Ella Reeve ("Mother") Bloor. In 1926, the Worker moved to Manhattan, switched quarters twice before it settled down on the eighth floor of a dingy building on Twelfth Street, two blocks from Union Square. It started printing on used presses bought cheaply from its archenemy, the Wall Street Journal...
...Yale University School of Medicine. Adopting the Read idea, they made improvements as they went along. Last week Dr. Goodrich reported to Manhattan's Maternity Center Association the favorable results in 400 cases, the first wholesale trial of the Read treatment...
...Manhattan's Gimbels last week cleaned up an old powder-room joke to drive home an advertising point. In an ad in the New York Times for such labor-saving gimmicks as toasters and electric juicers, it showed a housewife stretched out in an armchair enjoying a television show. Advised Gimbels: "When housework is inevitable, relax and enjoy...
...Manhattan last week, R. H. Macy & Co. was hawking an odd item-dish towels made of old flour bags. And they were selling at a furious clip (30,000 in ten shopping days). Sears, Roebuck & Co. was also advertising them in its new spring catalogue (and sales were brisk). In groceries, housewives were buying flour in 25-lb. bags that had sewn-in drawstrings; the buyer had only to unstitch a seam and she had a gaily printed cotton apron. Across the U.S., thousands of women, following instructions in special pattern books, were turning similar dress-printed bags into clothes...
...Manhattan last week, the cotton men reported on the first seven months of the selling drive. It was far rosier than expected. Monthly sales for 37-inch sheeting, the most widely used bagging, had more than doubled-to 6,370,000 yards. Far from satisfied, the cotton men hoped to reach the 15,550,000-yard mark for 37-inch sheeting before long, and have their market...