Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro Harlem has an annual tuberculosis death rate of 250 per 100,000 (against 69 for the city as a whole); the median rent in its crowded, stinky black-holes is $50 a month; in the city at large, $35. "The first race riot in New York was in 1712. The most recent was in 1935. The last is not yet." But Negroes like their Harlem. ("I'd rather be a lamppost on Lenox Avenue [Harlem's Main Street] than Governor of Georgia...
...York City's 600,000 Germans or German-born have about 1,500 clubs. The Nazified German-American Bund has probably 2,500 members in New York City plus perhaps 25,000 sympathizers...
...York City imports $1,000,000,000 worth of food a year, manufactures $3,962,293,000 worth of products. The city's first two industries are clothing ($1,200,000,000 in 1937) and printing and publishing...
...Under New York City are about 45,000 miles of pipes, conduits, mains and ducts for water, gas, electricity, telephone and telegraph. By concentrating on these subterranean life lines "a small crew of saboteurs could probably make New York uninhabitable within seventy-two hours...
...York City's able 19,000 police answer a call every 47 seconds. But the city's felony rate (1,028 per 100,000) is below the nation...