Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York World's Fair (attendance in six weeks: 7,419,283) is not only three times as large, but three times as lively, as the Golden Gate Exposition. By day the Exposition is more impressive looking. But with its many individual buildings for industrial firms (a number of which have brilliant exhibits) the Fair has strangled Broadway show business and night life,* while the Exposition looks wistful and envious at such a San Francisco-smash hit as the Ice Follies of 1939. The Fair's Midway is mediocre but alive; the Exposition's Gayway exploits sex (without...
...religious funeral in a Westchester chapel went: former Governor Philip F. La Follette (who flew from Wisconsin to speak an informal funeral oration) ; Indiana's onetime Governor James Putnam Goodrich; Madame Secretary of Labor Perkins; Mrs. Ogden Reid of the New York Herald Tribune; Writers Stuart Chase, John Gunther and Louis Adamic, Editor Freda Kirchwey of the Nation; Federal Judge Thomas D. Thacher, one time President of the New York City Bar Association; Banker John Hertz Sr. of Lehman Bros.; President Samuel Zemurray of United Fruit ; President Floyd Bostwick Odium of Atlas Corp., monster investment trust in which Alex...
...fare operation when ICC ordered their coach fares cut from 3.6? per mile to 2?, their Pullman fares from 4? to 3?. While they talked darkly of a court fight (which they did not make because Baltimore & Ohio refused to join them), the new rates increased passenger revenues. New York Central, whose big, bald President Frederick Ely Williamson headed an indignant protest committee of Eastern road presidents, enjoyed a $7,000,000 rise in passenger income for the year...
...Eastern roads were not convinced. They credited better business to recovery not to lower fares. So last July, when facing Depression II, they persuaded ICC to up coach rates to 2½?. Immediate result: New York Central's August revenues dropped 17% from the same month in 1937, B. & O.'s dropped 19.5%, New Haven...
...tacitly admitted that they had learned something from it. Mr. Williamson's committee plumped for lower rates and bigger volume-with a hedge. The Western roads which have profited by low fares have comparatively long passenger hauls. (Average passenger ride on Union Pacific: 560.89 miles. Average on New York Central: 57.85 miles.) So the Eastern roads plan to scale their fares down to encourage longer rides...