Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ears in elementary school. Since Mr. Shafer's right ear was larger than his left, Dr. Stotter said that he must have had a left-handed teacher. As Plastic Surgeon Stotter prepared to operate on Mr. Shafer's ears and joined Mr. Shafer in his campaign, New York Academy of Medicine's Dr. lago Galdston said last week the trouble was not ear-pulling but leg-pulling. Snorted Dr. Galdston: "This is baloney with a thick layer of sausage. If you hung up a boy by his ears for a couple of months, it might change their...
...appreciation for fine food." Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt explained why she never writes out her speeches: "I found that if I did not have to think about what I was saying, I became bored with my own conversation." As the $51,065-ton Italian liner Rex slid up New York Harbor, news spread over the ship that Europe was not going to war after all. Bursting with this glorious coincidence, Metropolitan Opera Stars Elisabeth Rethberg and Ezio Pinza exploded into super-canary song. Ex-Opera Star Beniamino Gigli, who left the Metropolitan in a huff six years ago when...
Waverly Village became part of Baltimore in 1888. No slum, it is chiefly inhabited by middle-class families, has an average complement of stores, saloons, movie houses. Old York Road has some tumble-down clapboard houses, but Ellerslie Avenue's brick rows are more typical. The section chosen for the experiment comprises about 1,600 homes in 50 blocks, is bounded on one side by swank Guilford, on the other by Baltimore's Municipal Stadium. In cooperation with the Baltimore Housing Authority, HOLC will make a survey to find out "what is necessary to fortify and secure residential...
BONG! went the New York Stock Exchange 10 o'clock opening bell one day last week. What looked like the worst break of the year promptly began. By radio and ticker came the gloomy words of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain before the House of Commons. To the market they brought a tide of liquidation. Prices cracked as much as three points, blocks as big as 6,000 shares were dumped. At 10:28, came the word that Hitler had agreed to a four-power conference. The tide turned. During the next hour buying orders for 700,000 shares jammed...
...about 20% from last year. Store sales, off 12% fortnight ago, were only down 6% from 1937 last week. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce declared: "All of the evidence points to some improvement in business. ... It is too early to know the strength present trends will develop. ..." The New York Times was less optimistic. Its business index fell and when commercial, industrial and agricultural loans by New York member banks of the Federal Reserve System shrank for the fifth week in succession, the Times committed itself to the prediction that this "pretty well smashed all hopes of a 'normal...