Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York provided an example of the change of fortune which war can bring to a U. S. town, one of York's businesses offered an example of what that change can mean to one firm...
Three weeks ago Port of New York Authority pointed out that while Manhattan's railroad freight tonnage had dropped 50% to 4,000,000 tons a year since 1919, trucking to & from the city had zoomed to the point where trucks were hauling two tons of freight to the railroads' one. So serious was this turnabout that the Authority warned motor carriers that they had better build big motortruck terminals in order to cut operating costs and reduce traffic congestion...
...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 of 2,000 to see the first scheduled airline flight come...
...with a minimum of ceremony, the airline capital of the U. S. moved to the finest and the most expensive flying field in the world. Into North Beach airport, New York City had poured $15,000,000, the Federal Government $25,000,000 (through WPA, which spent more money there than on any other project), the airlines thousands more in shop and office equipment. For all this the transcontinental airlines, riding on a passenger boom that has skyrocketed revenues 42.19% over last year's respectable totals, were properly grateful...
North Beach airport ("New York Municipal Airport" officially) was as handsome a subsidy as any city ever granted to a transport business. For rentals from the new airport New York City will get only $315,000 a year, has no expectation of getting any money return for the king's ransom it paid to bring the airlines across the Hudson from Jersey...