Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Framed by tasteful Joseph Urban, dressed by Charles LeMaire, the production starts off with a musical satire on the Empire State Building. Point of the jibe is that the skyscraper has insufficient sanitary facilities: "There are three on every floor; there should have been four." Following this scatalog in quick succession come shapely Song-Shouter Ethel Merman (née Zimmerman) who was in Girl-Crazy, funny Willie & Eugene Howard (Willie is also late of Girl Crazy), a splendid dancer named Ray Bolger who has weak knees, sure feet. There is also Everett Marshall, who has brought his fine voice...
...structure and growth of cities, the conversion of outlying acreage into highly improved urban estates, zoning, taxation, appreciation, obsolescence, building construction and design, the computation of schedules of income and expense in improvements, earning power, appraisal, and financing are discussed in an attempt to enable the student intelligently to follow the methods of procedure in the practice of real estate, and to provide a fuller knowledge of the forces which govern real estate values...
...interior of Mr. Carroll's $4,500,000 cathedral was obviously not the work of restrained Architect Joseph Urban, who built the Ziegfeld Theatre. It was done by George Keister and Joseph J. Babolnay. Tier upon tier of colored stone ribbed with twinkling metal rose like the bulge of a gigantic layer cake. A loudspeaker in the lobby urged latecomers to hurry...
...there will be 500 of them-will be used for the Treasury's short term financing of a year or less. On each will appear blanks for the date of issue and the rate of interest. Though they will primarily pass only between the Treasury and the great urban banks subscribing to Government loans, any citizen with $1,000,000 in cash is privileged to purchase one. If found on the street, such a certificate could be cashed as easily as a Treasury bond...
Thus was started what promises to be a major court test of Section 29 and the flourishing business of urban wine-making in the home. Karl Offer, national manager of Vino Sano, wired Attorney General Mitchell from California that he alone was responsible for the wine bricks and wanted to be included in any forthcoming indictments. He also sought the legal assistance of Mrs. Willebrandt, Vine-Glo's counsel, in working up a defense for his employes, but that lady enigmatically replied: "Sorry, but I never take Prohibition cases...