Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this week Jerome Frank and the SEC were deliberating in Washington whether to give any ear whatsoever to Cyrus Eaton & friends...
...Last week the little red-brick city of York, Pa. (pop. 55,254) tingled with anticipation of Christmas. Under the evergreen trees and colored lights festooning Continental Square (the itinerant Continental Congress met in York while Washington was at Valley Forge 162 winters ago), York's people thronged the stores, spent more freely than in any winter since 1929. York's industries offered 10%, more jobs than last year. Payrolls were 20% larger. York had almost no relief problem at all. York was grinning with prosperity...
...industry, York Ice Machinery Corp., was last week very busy making refrigerator equipment for new U. S. warships...
During the first six months of 1939 the total operating revenues of 1,050 Class I motor carriers (annual gross of $100,000 or more) were $130,108,000 (up 30% from 1938) on 19,184,000 tons of freight (22% over 1938). Last week American Trucking Associations, Inc. turned loose even more striking figures. Based on returns from 193 firms, it reported that in October, for the third successive month, highway motor trucking hit a new all-time peak. October traffic was up 5.4% from September, 33.4% over 1938, 23.2% over 1937, 51.3% above the 1936 monthly average...
...drizzly night last week, TWA Pilot Jack Zimmerman, with 20 passengers behind him, circled over The Bronx. With the scattered lights of Central Park on his right, to his left stretched the darkened reaches of Long Island sound. Ahead of him lay a floodlit field with a runway 6,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, Runway No. 1 of New York City's North Beach airport. Jack Zimmerman plunked the DC-3 down short, turned right and taxied up to the administration building where swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and a knot of city bigwigs waited in a crowd...