Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lunching with Manhattan's Bond Club, Under Secretary of the Treasury John Hanes stood up and predicted an era of business expansion soundly based on the investment of new capital in utility and industrial plants with or without war. Said he: "We were on the road to economic recovery prior to Poland." This naturally warmed the hearts of his hearers and encouraged them in expansion...
Whether the war boom is a stimulant that will give Business a lift toward permanent recovery or will only give it a hangover, is a prime question for economists to argue. Last week in an address to industrial leaders summoned by General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr., in Manhattan, Dr. Harold G. Moulton, pudgy president of Brookings Institute explained his view...
...this time 1938), nearly half of them secured in the three months ended Sept. 15. Two-thirds of this backlog is for corporate accounts-all the way from $20-50,000 plant additions, to a super store for Tiffany & Co. on the elegant corner of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. From the U. S. it has $7,800,000 in orders: for USHA's Tasker Street Housing project in Philadelphia, for U. S. Navy's air bases building on the strategic Pacific islands, Hawaii, Midway, Johnston, Palmyra...
This week, Allergist Laurence Farmer of Manhattan presented a frank, scientific discussion of allergy in a little book* full of medical anecdotes. Interesting facts...
...with surgical knives, forks and spoons, rooms crowded with electrical vibrating beds, weird steel scaffolds for broken limbs, gently breathing rubber bellows for warming frozen toes. Among the most popular of the commercial exhibits was the table of urological tubes and periscopes shown by C. R. Bard, Inc. of Manhattan. Over the table hung a large panel of giddy French cartoons, drawn 30 years ago by A. Barrère, depicting the famed faculty of Sorbonne surgeons as inept and bloody butchers...