Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan millinery trade have known Louis Greenfield, a Hungarian Jew who fought for the U. S. in the War and has a little business in West 38th Street, as an honest, hard-working chap almost too devoted to his wife, Anna, and the son she bore him in 1922. They knew he borrowed money right & left to get nurses, doctors, treatments for the son, Jerry, who was forever ailing. They knew that worry aged Louis Greenfield prematurely. But only his intimates knew that the child, who would have been 17 last March, was a quivering, overgrown, cross-eyed imbecile...
...Gentlemen. I want to remonstrate with you. I want to plead with you to stop this promotion of the open-toed, open-backed shoe for street wear. . . . Today you see millions of women, all over America, slop-slopping along the streets with not only their toes out, but their heels out too. ... I won't be a bit surprised if, some day, they just walk right out on you and shellac their soles and put bells on their toes and say, 'To hell with shoes!!' . . . All this makes me very...
American Airlines was born just ten years ago, when Wall Street suddenly decided that aviation was to be the next great industry. A dozen or so big underwriters formed Aviation Corp., sold $35,000,000 worth of stock and with the proceeds bought up some 80 aeronautical properties, including 9,100 miles of airlines. These were presently lumped into American Airways. As might have been expected, the conglomeration had an operating loss of $3,400,000 in 1930. Successive losses brought continued shake-ups in management until 1932, when Plunger Errett Lobban Cord got control after a spectacular proxy battle...
...shadows lengthened beneath the stately Plympton Street elms and the evening breeze whispered through the leaves, dignified Harvard men, strolling along the green paths of the ancient Yard, murmured to one another, "Ah, yes, 23 to 2, I understand...
...Certainly you will," called the Ibis calmly from his high perch over Mt. Auburn Street, "the Lampoon never makes a hit anywhere...