Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Businessmen flinched at the prospect of seeing the Government step into railroads as it has into Power. But soon Wall Street learned that any investment houses which wanted to hurry and outbid the Government, float equipment trusts of their own at low interest rates, would receive the New Deal's blessing and perhaps insurance for their money...
...this week finished widening the main street of Forest Hills, L. I., home of U. S. championship tennis. So surprised, pleased, grateful were 125 merchants by the speed and skill with which the work was done, that they invited the 100-odd workers to eat cold cuts, drink beer at a local roof garden...
...last week the disaster wagon had practically nothing to do. Then heavy rains fell on Portland. Out roared the "disaster wagon" on its first real job-pumping out a flooded basement. The building: Lipman Wolfe's department store (just across the street from Mr. Frank's store), his biggest competitor...
...TIME to enable TIME readers to prove their own knowledge of Current Affairs by the same test that was used in hundreds of schools at the end of last term. Additional copies are available for group programs, on request to TIME'S Chicago office, 330 East 22nd Street...
Twenty years ago Max Salop and two brothers, Morris and Abraham, were in the retail shoe business. Then Max went into second-hand books, started the Harlem Book Co. as a retail bookstore on Manhattan's 125th Street. When Depression hit, he waved ready cash under publishers' long faces, cornered the market in publishing's distress merchandise. Today he owns several bargain bookshops, a reprint house which publishes under half-a-dozen aliases. Not even Salop himself knows how many books he sells a year...