Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington Avenue is a residential street that cuts due north and south through the low rolling hills of The Bronx. It begins north of the Harlem River where the Third Avenue Elevated slices off on the bias, and it ends, some 40 blocks beyond, at the campus of Fordham University. In its most populous stretch, between Claremont and Tremont, it is a cheerful, neighborly street, where on the summer evenings Jewish housewives lean from their windows or sit in chairs drawn out on the sidewalks, where kids on roller skates coast down the slight slope and where the tumult...
This neighborhood is the stamping ground of Alfred Cohen. Alfred is a small, blond, wiry eight-year-old boy who lives with his parents and an older brother and sister on the fifth floor of a walk-up apartment house. Directly across the street is Bronx House, where there is a dance every Wednesday night, where the dramatic club occasionally puts on shows like H.M.S. Pinafore, where the free art class of the Federal Art Project meets daily...
...photo-electric impulses, the advertisement, designed by Cartoonist Otto Soglow, runs steadily for five minutes, automatically repeats itself, resembles a Walt Disney cinema short. The cartoon shows two elflike characters making love, smoking cigarets, blowing smoke rings ; it will have a different theme every two months. Located at 43rd Street and Broadway, it is a half-block long, two-and-a-half stories high, uses electricity sufficient to illuminate a city of 5,000, will cost P. Lorillard & Co. $5,000 a month...
...last week, up 57% in three weeks. Brokers' loans, always the best index of speculative interest in the market, rose to $537,000,000, a $22,000,000 increase in two weeks. Trading on the Exchange, however, turned down last week in the reaction which Wall Street always expects as speculators cash in their profits. One day sales volume hit the highest point since October 29, (2,774,320); two days later volume tumbled to the lowest in three weeks (592,300). Dow-Jones industrial averages at week's end stood at 136.20, down 2.33 points from...
...Mesabi Range of Minnesota, is a town without visible means of support. Its three iron mines are closed. Most of its employed inhabitants are on the public payroll, supported by local taxes on the closed mines. Some 175 are on WPA. The village employs another 150 as policemen, firemen, street cleaners, librarians. The school board gives jobs to 55 teachers, some 200 janitors (one for every three pupils), each of whom works three to ten days a month. The Gilbert Herald is supported by $4,000 of public printing work...