Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your discussion of his "signed" story, classing him with Peaches Browning and Ruth Snyder. If your attitude toward him hadn't been clear before, it is now. Your petty article reminds one of the small-town gossip whose chief joy lies in muddying some clean name in the neighborhood. I have concluded that "readableness, interest," to quote one of your own apologies, is your chief standard...
...ship, it cannot collect the $50,000 for the design, a stipulation of the contest being that if the company submitting the winning design also should be given the job of building the ship, it could not collect the prize-money. Inasmuch as the dirigible will cost in the neighborhood of $4,500,000, the $50,000 becomes a small detail and the Goodyear company will, in all probability, go ahead with the construction job which will take some three years for completion...
...presumption was that they had a fixed program for discussion. That was not necessarily the case. They are, as heads of most potent banks, interested in the current situation of world business and finance. Knowing the routes of commerce is of no less importance to them than is the neighborhood route to the morning's milkman. And the best way to learn, they have wisely decided, is viva voce, by friendly conversations...
...seats to weekly performances. Charter subscribers who take $2,000 worth of stock will receive one seat in perpetuity. An option has already been taken on a site near Broadway in the 50's. When, in about two years, construction gets under way, it is hoped that this neighborhood will then be the heart of the theatre district...
...Manhattan, where tall buildings have begun to cause concern, the Broadway Association last week noted, on the basis of new surveys, that every story of a skyscraper brought 1,000 more people to a neighborhood. But land is so dear on Manhattan Island that buildings must be tall to earn enough income for expenses. Thus last week Irwin S. and Henry I. Chanin, constructors, announced that their new building at Lexington Ave. and 42nd St. would be 625 feet, 52 stories high. The location is as costly as land within the "Broadway district," a strip of streets about 200 blocks...