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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Island to Elizabeth. N. J.): the Bayonne Bridge (Staten Island to Bayonne. N. J.); the George Washington Bridge (Manhattan to Fort Lee. N. J.). It also owns and operates profitably the Holland Vehicular Tunnel, is now planning a second vehicular tube under the Hudson. It is building a 16- million-dollar inland terminal to be used as a receiving centre for all less-than-a-carload railroad freight. An efficient, businesslike, self-sustaining public agency, it is comparatively free from petty politics.-ED. Smart Farmer Sirs...
...indictments the Moose and Eagles lotteries were run in connection with social functions. A dance ticket included a chance to win a cash prize. Indicted as the actual promoter of these enterprises was one Bernard C. McGuire of Aurora, Ill. who was said to have had some 50 million lottery tickets printed in the last two years. The Government will try to prove that some $5,000,000 was collected from the sale of tickets while prize-winners got only about $225,000. The fraternal orders were supposed to have gotten back about $1,000,000 for charity purposes...
...your excellency that Mayor Walker has answered for his affairs full and completely and I say to you that Sherwood's [the Mayor's runaway financial agent] absence is ten million times more valuable to the charge makers than Sherwood's presence could possibly be. But don't let anybody mistake my position. That the tenure of office of the Mayor of the greatest city in the world should depend upon his detective ability is to me more or less unthinkable, particularly when the committee with $750,000 behind it and the arm of the State of New York...
...cups daily for every U. S. man, woman & child. Two-thirds of the coffee for the big U. S. pot comes from Brazil. Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Java, Mocha and other tropical lands furnish the other one-third, mild coffees which are blended with the strong Brazilian. Using a million bags a month, the U. S. last week had visible stocks which would keep the big pot full for another 20 days. The Farm Board has another 1,050,000 bags which it can start to market Sept. 1 at the rate of 62,500 bags a month. Bartered...
Ragweed began to ripen and send its pollen (ten billion grains to the plant) into the air last week. In consequence, some two million peculiarly sensitive residents of the U. S. began to snuffle & weep with their annual attacks of hayfever. New York City, Chicago and smaller communities hired men to pull up every stalk of ragweed within city limits. For one day's pulling Chicago paid 25? and a ticket good for a week's room & board in a charity shelter. Sales of home air filterers perked up. If his sleeping quarters are free from dust...