Word: street
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would cost nearly $1,000 to dismantle it, about $500 to cart it away from its perch on a midtown Manhattan street corner, another $4,500 to put it up somewhere else. Alfred Birnbaum, scraping along on his $105-a-month G.I. benefits while he studies optometry, just didn't have that kind of money. To make matters worse, it was costing $50 rent for every day the house remained on the parking lot, where it had been raffled away (at a loss) by the American Women's Voluntary Services...
Since the farmer seldom comes to Wall Street, the firm of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane has decided to bring Wall Street to the farmer.- Explained Merrill Lynch's Des Moines manager Mike Dearth: "The farmer has made a hell of a lot of dough in the last few years. It ought to be put to work...
...Daily News jolted Chicagoans with a spread of Hogarth-like pictures and the Mooney-Bird story of their 14 days in the land of "the living dead." In the twelve-part series, Reporters Mooney and Bird described the worst of 82 squalid saloons in three-quarters of a Madison Street mile (most of them selling the "morning special," a double shot of whisky for 18?), listed the names & addresses of saloonkeepers who were breaking the state liquor and health laws, and put the finger on couldn't-care-less cops...
...Wall Street was more cheerful last week than it had been for months. With the stock market surging to a new high for the year, the Dow-Jones industrial average closed the week at 181.16, nearly 20 points above the June...
Said the ad in the Wall Street Journal: "Management needs person or corporation to take complete charge of sales and production. With or without investment." In this way, Detroit's Charles S. Langs, 36, the harried inventor of Posēs (pronounced pose-ease), a strapless, wireless, adhesive brassière, hoped to get out from under a mushrooming small business which had grown too big to handle...