Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affluent, found the carrying charges of his pleasure dome too much for them. But they could find no latter-day tycoon rich enough to take it over. Last week the Kahn heirs announced they had sold the place for an undisclosed nominal sum to the Sanitation Department of New York City. Where divas dazzled financiers, where 50-piece orchestras played all night for Long Island's gilded youth, now white-wings who spent their lives cleaning the streets of the metropolis, inspectors who fought its diseases, engineers who disposed of its sewage, will live in luxurious vacation and retirement...
...near-zero record. Wisconsin's ludicrous Julius ("The Just") Heil in Madison was entangled in his own bumblings and the snares of Republican legislators who connived to load him with all the blame for their sorry record, adjourn with the least possible damage to their party. New York's Democrat Herbert Lehman recalled his Legislature to Albany to repair a budget which a Republican majority had unconstitutionally cut. But the unhappiest, unluckiest Governor of 1939 was California's Democrat Culbert Levy Olson...
...York World's Fair manager is suave mustachioed...
...March, April, May, the U. S. Treasury had various Government trust funds sell $90,000,000 of their Governments, but investors with nothing better to do in the last two weeks bid Government securities up to new highs (over 114), thereby reducing interest rates to metaphysical fractions. So New York's great National City Bank complained for all U. S. banks (who now have 60% of their funds invested in Governments): "Treasury bills [are] selling at the virtually non-existent yield of 0.004%, and all maturities of Treasury notes through June 1941 [are] quoted on a no-yield basis...
Motoring is a Plugge passion; he once drove every foot of the way from New York to Los Angeles and back. Captain Plugge greatly admires U. S. mechanical ingenuity. Last week, while driving over Connecticut's Merritt Parkway, a highspeed, four-lane artery paralleling the cluttered old Post Road, Captain Plugge greatly admired the glass curb reflectors which outline the road at night. He stopped, got out, examined the reflectors minutely with a flashlight. Later he asked the Connecticut Highway Department for samples and manufacturing details, saying he intended to urge installation of the reflectors on English highways...