Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...youngsters often end up in New York. The most sensational special link the committee found was the "Minneapolis connection," in which young girls from that city, itself a magnet for runaways from much of the upper Midwest, move into New York in such large numbers that a section of Manhattan's Eighth Avenue has long been known as "the Minnesota Strip." Minneapolis police claim that up to 400 juveniles a year from the area are lost to other cities, with most of the youths winding up in prostitution in New York...
...committee heard from a Minneapolis police officer who had come to Manhattan to coax young Midwest prostitutes to return to their parents or to "safe houses," where they would be protected from their pimps. The officer had failed-largely because publicity about his visit took the girls temporarily off the streets-but he and a few of his previously liberated young streetwalkers told harrowing stories. Two examples...
...friend. He said she would have to work the street to stay with him and steal money from her customers so she could get their bus fare to Chicago. Once there, she earned another $800 in three weeks. The two moved on to Manhattan, where she picked up men around luxury hotels, robbing them when she could. Sick of the life after six weeks, she tried to leave her pimp, but he broke her jaw. After hospitalization, she was forced back on the streets by him with her jaw wired shut. When an attempt to kill herself failed, she phoned...
...parts maker, nearly three weeks ago; Eaton offered $47 a share for Carborundum, a pretty premium of $14 for a stock that never sold higher than 40% during the past ten years. When Carborundum rejected that offer, a furious auction began that finally concluded early last week in the Manhattan offices of Morgan Stanley & Co., which represented Carborundum. After some unnamed other bidders called in by phone, Kennecott offered $66, or some 14 times this year's projected earnings...
Need some new falconry equipment? An indoor treadmill to exercise your dog? An explorer's chain-mail suit guaranteed to deflect poisonous arrows? For 85 years, the place to go would have been Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch, supplier to princes and Presidents, and the self-styled "greatest sporting-goods store in the world." Alas, no longer: last week the company saddled with debts totaling nearly $8 million, gave up a 15-month struggle to reorganize under the bankruptcy laws and went into liquidation...