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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, of Franklin Roosevelt and Harold Ickes with whose money he built the Triborough Bridge, Mr. Moses is a favorite with Greater New Yorkers. In the last 17 years he has, almost singlehanded, obtained for them more and better parks and parkways than they had obtained in 50 years previous...
...world's butterfat champion. Six-year-old, 1,000-lb. Sybil Tessie Lorna 996685, a Jersey owned by L. A. Hulbert of Independence, Ore., had produced 17,121 lbs. of milk in the official 305-day test period, enough butterfat to outweigh herself by 20 lbs. Previous holder of the all-breed record was Aaltje Salo Hengerveld Segis 823991, a Vermont Holstein who produced 995.9 lbs. in the same time. Proud Jersey cattle-clubmen pointed out that the Holstein was milked four times a day; Lorna, three...
...deadline, only 83.5% of the old notes now totaling $15,000,000 were on deposit for exchange. Nickel Plate's President George D. Brooke, however, declared the extension plan operative. Next day, prices of the notes skyrocketed to 84, new 1938 high and 23¼ points above the previous day's close. The fact that price gyrations occurred several hours before official statements were issued prompted both SEC and the New York Exchange to start investigating the whole affair...
...Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, refused to discuss "anything less than 2,000 years old." At a stock sale in Belmont, Ohio, Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late President, and Republican candidate for U. S. Senator, auctioned off a calf for 14½? a pound instead of the previous top of 9?. Cracked Candidate Taft: "It just shows what I can do with the farm problem if given half a chance...
Statistical answers were preponderantly optimistic. Engineering construction awards of $49,229,000 were 16% over the same week in 1937. Carloadings, risen 2.3% from the previous week, were still off about 20% from last year. Store sales, off 12% fortnight ago, were only down 6% from 1937 last week. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce declared: "All of the evidence points to some improvement in business. ... It is too early to know the strength present trends will develop. ..." The New York Times was less optimistic. Its business index fell and when commercial, industrial and agricultural loans by New York member banks...