Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over a glass of beer at the New York World's Fair last summer pretty Florence Mistele, 18, design student, and handsome Richard Graham, 20, actor, hatched a solution to the age-old problem of what to do with one glove after the other is lost. This week their patented answer went on sale at Manhattan's swank Mark Cross Co. (leather goods). It was a glove which looked like a hand's pattern jig-sawed out of a board. It is made by sewing an identical back and palm to a leather ribbon edge. Loose...
...York Central, rosy with the rush of shipping business that has brought the flush of health to many a wan railroad cheek, last week announced a September net of $3,120,096, reported that fat business had cut its 1939 deficit to 90? a common share, compared with $3.32 for the first nine months of 1938. That day New York Central, a fast mover in a normally lively market, stood at 20¼. Next day it was down to 20, the following day to 19¾. Last week it closed...
...last week's end sales since Jan. 1 on the New York Stock Exchange averaged only 896,517 shares a day compared to 983,577 shares in dull 1938. And the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrials, which stood at 155.92 when the third-quarter earnings reports began to hit the financial pages, hovered around 151-about the non-boom level...
Married. Joseph Paul Di Maggio Jr., 24, star centre fielder of the New York Yankees; and Dorothy Arnoldine Olson, 21, cinemactress known as Dorothy Arnold; in San Francisco, Calif...
Died. Murry Guggenheim, 81, senior member and financial brains of the Manhattan firm of Guggenheim Bros.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. His outstanding philanthropy: the Murry and Leonie Guggenheim Foundation, providing training for dental hygienists, establishing free dental clinics for poor New York children...