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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York provided an example of the change of fortune which war can bring to a U. S. town, one of York's businesses offered an example of what that change can mean to one firm...
...Port of New York Authority pointed out that while Manhattan's railroad freight tonnage had dropped 50% to 4,000,000 tons a year since 1919, trucking to & from the city had zoomed to the point where trucks were hauling two tons of freight to the railroads' one. So serious was this turnabout that the Authority warned motor carriers that they had better build big motortruck terminals in order to cut operating costs and reduce traffic congestion...
...One drizzly night last week, TWA Pilot Jack Zimmerman, with 20 passengers behind him, circled over The Bronx. With the scattered lights of Central Park on his right, to his left stretched the darkened reaches of Long Island sound. Ahead of him lay a floodlit field with a runway 6,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, Runway No. 1 of New York City's North Beach airport. Jack Zimmerman plunked the DC-3 down short, turned right and taxied up to the administration building where swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and a knot of city bigwigs waited...
...airlines to move their terminus from Newark's busy airport, New York City offered a 558-acre airdrome, of which 357 acres were moved from nearby Riker's Island; six huge hangars, each large enough to house a football gridiron with room for bleachers, six restaurants, one with cocktail lounge and nightclub; offices for rent by the day to busy executives (the most expensive, $75 a day); a sound-proofed engine test building; the finest seaplane terminal in the world where trans-Atlantic planes can dock in the roughest weather. Clear of approach obstructions to jangle the nerves...
...been spared from getting down to cases about tanks, torpedo tubes, guns, engines, propeller shafts, observation instruments, etc. Manufacturing these requires one of the few basic materials the U. S. happens to lack-tin. So does manufacturing tin cans to hold the No. 1 necessity of war and peace-food...