Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the little red-brick city of York, Pa. (pop. 55,254) tingled with anticipation of Christmas. Under the evergreen trees and colored lights festooning Continental Square (the itinerant Continental Congress met in York while Washington was at Valley Forge 162 winters ago), York's people thronged the stores, spent more freely than in any winter since 1929. York's industries offered 10%, more jobs than last year. Payrolls were 20% larger. York had almost no relief problem at all. York was grinning with prosperity...
...last seven or eight Christmases have not been especially lush in York. Because of war and the fear of war, this year is different, as it is different in many other U. S. manufacturing cities. In the striking case of York...
...industry, York Ice Machinery Corp., was last week very busy making refrigerator equipment for new U. S. warships...
...York's No. 3, York Safe & Lock Co., has built some of the world's largest vaults, and during World War I built most of the U. S. Army's howitzers. Now York Safe & Lock Co. is completing a big plant addition for armament production, is hard at work building carriages for the U. S. Army's three-inch anti-aircraft guns. The carriages are so intricate that the dismantled parts take up 52 square feet of floor space, and the most that can be produced is ten or twelve per month. The company also...
...Among all of York's prosperous, loose-pocket citizenry, few were in more of a holiday mood than farmers from outlying Biglerville. Reason: Biglerville calls itself "AppleSauce Capital of the U. S." and the U. S. Navy had just placed an order there for several hundred tons...