Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice like a pent-up sob, was the best known torch singer of them all. In the sweeping Americana of Edna Ferber's Showboat she was the modern note. Her House of Morgan was the nattiest in Manhattan's satiny nightclub belt. Last week in Philadelphia, plumper, still tousled, sad-eyed and sobby-voiced, Helen Morgan sang in three-a-day variety at cheap Fay's Theatre on Market Street. The matinee audience was unenthusiatic. "I got the bird," she reported, demonstrating with a lady-like version. "Only," she added, "it was worse, much worse. They...
...among anthracite firms which went into the courts were the $94,000,000 Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. and the $10,000,000 Madeira, Hill & Co. The former, a protege of Philadelphia's Drexel interests, has been historically associated with the Reading Railroad. Incensed over Philadelphia & Reading's record of losing $24,000,000 in surplus since 1932, Federal Judge Oliver Booth Dickinson cracked: "There is something radically wrong with the Pennsylvania anthracite industry that it can run up ... inordinately high prices of coal to consumers. The tendency has been for management to take far more than...
Bootlegging. In Philadelphia & Reading's petition under the Bankruptcy Act it cited the loss by 'legging of 4,000,000 tons annually. But this highly publicized illicit trade is no longer what it was. Several States have legislated against bootleg coal, leaving Philadelphia almost the sole market; surface outcrops suitable for bootleg mining are approaching exhaustion. Bootlegging never accounted for more than 8% of the total anthracite output, probably employed only 20,000 men at its peak. Last week the Commission guessed that it now employs...
Into his father's office, from whose walls a row of New Deal dignitaries look down, David ("Tommy") Stern 3rd moved last week, becoming general manager of Philadelphia's rambunctious Record. Short, red-faced, 28 and popping with ideas, Tommy Stern intimately resembles his father in appearance and energy. For many a moon he has been itching to have a paper all his own, has bid for the Harrisburg Telegraph and Providence Star-Tribune. Now he has agreed to stay put for a year on the Record. If Tommy proves as big as his job, J. David Stern...
...Zonite Products Corp., this time decided to expand his sales force, began by increasing it 25%. This meant adding only nine men, but this is a large addition in a field where individual orders may run as high as $500,000. Mindful that when M. M. & M. bought Philadelphia's Box, Crane & Hoist Corp. in 1932 such methods boosted its share of the hoist business from 2.2% to 15% within the five years, Sales Manager William P. Bradbury predicted that 1938 would be his company's biggest year. "In periods of retarded buying," he explained, "we have found...