Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following advertisement appeared last week in the New York Post...
Last week, wheat sold at Liverpool for less than at any time on record, July corn sold at Chicago for less than at any time in six years, October cotton was quoted at New York for 1½? less than the week before. The auto industry was in its summer stagnation period. And out from under U. S. business was knocked 1939's firmest prop: building's spurt to new monthly highs. The Annalist reported that building-earlier in the year up some 70% from the 1938 low (adjusted seasonally), and almost 25% from the 1937 high...
...most sensitive barometer-the stockmarket as mirrored in the Dow-Jones industrial averages-enthusiastic over prospects for the second half of 1939, dashed off a sensational 6.1-point rise, reached its highest point since March (144.7 against 152.3 then). For the first week in six months the New York Stock Exchange had four 1,000,000 share days. All listed shares rose some two billions...
When dressy, horsy Grover Aloysius Whalen unveiled his $157,000,000 New York World's Fair last April, he figured that out-of-town customers would be storming its gates by July 1. Instead of a Big Push he got an attendance so low that he was moved fortnight ago to start making reduced rates (reduced parking fees, bargain admissions for large groups) to fairgoers. Last week...
Responding to the Head Man's fillip, the groggy Fair perked up last week end to produce the largest Saturday crowd to date; 256,253 paid admissions. 55,247 passes. Led by New York City's violent little Mayor LaGuardia, over 70% of the visitors used the $1 bargain tickets...