Word: stills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Howard, the Gay Nineties song-&-dance man who wrote I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now and 500 other whilom favorites, is 72. His shuffle-off-to-Buff alo is not what it used to be, but he can still plug a song. Last Christmas, parsimonious Showman Billy Rose, whose cabaret career is paved with old music-hall favorites hired for a song, hired old Joe to sing his old songs at Manhattan's rhinestony Diamond Horseshoe. For Joe Howard, the job was a welcome hitch along his comeback trail-which last week looked promising indeed...
...Little Old New York saloonkeeper's son, born in slummy Mulberry Bend, orphaned at seven, a runaway (from Father Drunogie's orphanage) in his 'teens, Joe Howard had been on the boards for 60 years. His runaway took him to St. Louis where, still in short pants, he got a job with McNish, Johnson & Slavin's Refined Minstrels, singing A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother. This job was the making of him. He became a protege of the late, bully-built William Muldoon (later T.R.'s sparring partner), who was then touring...
Many evacuated children had never before seen a hen, a pig or an apple tree. But they needed scant introduction, soon learned to shinny up apple trees and drop the fruit into caps held by their sisters. Wherever they went-apple-picking, blackberrying or fishing-most of the children still dutifully carried their gas masks...
...manufacturer of presses sold 32 of them (at $400 to $3,000 apiece) between 8 o'clock one morning and 3 o'clock that afternoon. Lathes of the type used in arsenals could not be had at any price. Prices jumped 12½% on tools that could still be had. Dealers from Canada to Texas looked out for secondhand machines...
This was typical. The first week of war started a speculative scramble for all kinds of commodities; the second week saw the scramble spread to capital goods. Yet most materials manufacturers, who will have to buy billions of dollars of new machinery if sustained war business materializes, were still wary about tying cash up in fixed plant except where old machinery would not do. Nor was the export boom, that has been expected ever since the armament race began five years ago, any more evident than in the past. As Cartoonist Herb Block allegorized (see cut), a war boom...