Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president is tall, fretting, blue-eyed Frederick M. Small, son of the town's richest man, who went through Yale, returned to set up his own candy factory, and before he was 22 employed 200 men. Now he is 61, and since 1927 Martin-Parry Corp. has lost money every year. That year Henry Ford changed over from Model T to Model A, and Martin-Parry, with a big stock of T-style bodies and parts, took an inventory loss of at least $1,000,000. Meanwhile other manufacturers took to making their own truck bodies. In 1930 General...
...with a minimum of ceremony, the airline capital of the U. S. moved to the finest and the most expensive flying field in the world. Into North Beach airport, New York City had poured $15,000,000, the Federal Government $25,000,000 (through WPA, which spent more money there than on any other project), the airlines thousands more in shop and office equipment. For all this the transcontinental airlines, riding on a passenger boom that has skyrocketed revenues 42.19% over last year's respectable totals, were properly grateful...
North Beach airport ("New York Municipal Airport" officially) was as handsome a subsidy as any city ever granted to a transport business. For rentals from the new airport New York City will get only $315,000 a year, has no expectation of getting any money return for the king's ransom it paid to bring the airlines across the Hudson from Jersey...
...succeed, is Lloyd C. Douglas's "inspirational" Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50), sequel to that classic of spiritual horse -doctoring, Magnificent Obsession. Perennials in any group of novels are a certain number which appear to have been written because: 1) their authors need the money, or 2) some novelists get started and can't stop. Such...
...poetry, and the quintessence of them all, religion," Koeves dignifies travel as a "virus," as "a form of poetry whose raw material is life," as "an instinct second only to that of the passion of love. . . . Cities are more docile mistresses than women. Like women, they require time and money; but of the two they are by far the less demanding and more generous...