Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sales of R. H. Macy reached a new high of $99,000,000 against $98,000,000, though the consolidated sales of R. H. Macy & Co., Inc. (including L. Bambergers in Newark, also stores in Toledo and Atlanta) were $147,000,000 against...
...Toledo, Ohio...
Eight hours prior, in a Manhattan lecture, Mr. Lewis had referred to Mr. Dreiser as "one of the greatest American writers." Some 16 hours later, to a large, expectant crowd in Toledo's Town Hall, he praised Mr. Dreiser's Sister Carrie and The Financier as "splendid examples of American writing," apologized for not being in a more "ferocious mood...
...Toledo to the Sea. Thirty-eight miles of new track between Cochran's Mill and Connellsville, Pa., last week were opened for traffic. Built at a cost of $16.000,000 by Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway (Taplin-managed, Pennroad-controlled), it joins the P. & W. V. with Western Maryland, affords another direct route from Toledo and the Great Lakes to Baltimore and the Atlantic seaboard, may afford a 24-hour freight saving. If the proposed Eastern rail consolidation plan goes through, control of the P. & W. V. will be held jointly by the four eastern systems, hence the new link will...
...Americans are literary snobs," said burly British Novelist John Boynton (Angel Pavement) Priestley, landing in Manhattan last week. "I am here to speak or lecture at a place called Buffalo, prominent for its bootleggers. Then I will speak at Toledo, a place full of crooks chased out of Chicago. Third, I will lecture at Urbana, Ill., a place I couldn't find on my $12 atlas...