Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nickel cigar was back in Manhattan and the $1.99 shirt in Kansas City. A basket of groceries which cost a Des Moines housewife $4.19 a year ago could be bought last week for $3.29. The papers advertised sales in everything from bed sheets to mink coats...
...Fioretti, bartender at Manhattan's Stork Club, got a tip from a steady customer-a 1948 Cadillac. The customer was an out-of-town auto dealer, and Tom had always been able to fix him up with a hotel room whenever he came to town...
...Long Island plot 20 miles from Manhattan, Builders Levitt & Sons put up a trim two-bedroom bungalow. Like other U.S. builders, they knew a slump had curbed real estate sales; many a new house was going begging because the price was too high. But Bill Levitt felt sure there were plenty of buyers, if the house -and price-were right...
Died. Joseph Wright Harriman,*81, Manhattan banker (Harriman National Bank & Trust Co.) who, after his bank failed in 1933, served a two-year prison sentence for misapplying funds; in Sea Cliff...
Died. Henry Warner Slocum, 86, two-time U.S. national tennis champion (1888-89), the second man to hold the title; after long illness; in Manhattan...