Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robertson, but TIME does not know the addresses of its newsstand buyers. Though admission to the library is by card only, he or any other newsstand buyer of TIME can obtain a guest card by writing to TIME'S Chicago office (330 East 22d Street). He will find a few exhibits, no dancing girls, no glimpses of the World of Tomorrow-just a cool roomy place high above the city where he can 1) meet his friends, 2) read his hometown newspaper, 3) write his letters, 4) see television, 5) look at a March oj Time cinema...
...night last week reporters and photographers for the Minneapolis evening Journal called their office for night assignments, got no answer. Those who went around to the Journal building on Fourth Street found files and other paraphernalia being carried out, piled in trucks lined up outside the door. Upstairs several linotype operators still worked. Most of the Journal's, 500 employes did not know just what had happened until noon the next day, when the first edition of the Minneapolis Star-Journal appeared. "Well," said one of the jobless 500 (150 of them later got jobs), "it looks like...
...citizens stuck with German bonds, SEC's refusal to let Germany "pay" was no great loss, if anything, opened possibilities of a better deal. The bonds were last week kicking around in Wall Street for 25? on the dollar, in Germany, at 60 pfennig on the 100 pfennig Reichsmark (good only in Germany). If SEC had accepted the application, bondholders would have got $35,000,000 of bonds (1937 and '38 interest) which at 3% would have netted them about $1,000,000 a year in usable money. British holders of German bonds got a better deal which...
...friend, keen-eyed William Thomas Carpenter, who ran a real-estate agency across the street from Dubil's butcher shop, joined the venture and they found a ready market for their laminated steaks in other shops. Bill Carpenter named them "Chip Steaks," set out to sell them in a big way. Presently William Dubil sold his patents to Carpenter for 25% of the Chip Steak royalties...
...retired millionaire who fancied radicals. An anarchist sympathizer, at 18 he made campaign speeches for Woodrow Wilson. He made and lost a War fortune in commodities purchased on borrowed money, turned conscientious objector when the U. S. entered the War. Since 1919 he has worked in Wall Street, managed private banks in London and Paris, been in the grain trade in Antwerp, written for financial magazines, ghost-written two books on economics. In all, he has made and lost three fortunes. His last flyer was olive groves in Spain...