Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schroeder for the last time. With less difficulty than he had in the finals of the National Singles at Forest Hills, Amateur Champion Gonzales dusted off his old enemy (6-3, 9-11, 8-6, 6-4) to win the Pacific Southwest Championship. Then he hopped a plane for Manhattan...
...nine rounds, Rocky Graziano sat in his corner, his face smeared with blood and bewilderment.The reform-school graduate who used to thrill Manhattan crowds with his ferocious, windmill technique was losing his first major fight in New York after a three-year exile. "You've got to knock him out," warned his manager, while he smeared carpenter's wax on a cut above Rocky's left eye. Growled Graziano, impatiently: "I still got one round...
...chairs, rugs, dishes, kitchenware and other useful objects from Kokomo, Kankakee and Kalamazoo, as well as from the designing centers of New York, Detroit and Los Angeles. Garbage containers and stainless-steel pails fashioned by factory workers in Sheboygan got as much display as custom fabrics and ceramics from Manhattan's Madison Avenue...
...exhibits looked handsome, efficient, worth taking home. Tubular steel and molded plywood chairs, unornamented chests and tables no longer wore the unfamiliar, revolutionary air which had made an earlier generation snort and settle deeper into its mohair easy chairs. Sample rooms designed by Finland's Alvar Aalto and Manhattan's George Nelson proved that with modern furnishings a home could be simple and yet warm and livable...
...importers of British raw materials and goods cheered the devaluation of the British pound to $2.80 (see INTERNATIONAL). Prices of British goods in the U.S. had been far too high; now they began to tumble. Fergus Motors, a Manhattan importer of British cars, slashed the price of the Austin automobile from $1,595 to $1,275, trimmed all other makes 20%. Rolls-Royce dealers trimmed that $20,000 job to $15,000. Dunhill's also jumped aboard, cut British pipes and cigarette cases 20%. The prices of British wool, rubber, cocoa and other commodities from sterling areas slumped...