Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that higher passenger fares were the thing. In July, ICC agreed to a rise in the coach fare from 2½-to-2½?. This time, instead of the $32,000,000 boost in revenue which Mr. Williamson and friends expected, passenger revenues dropped-the New York Central's falling 17% in August, compared with 1937, the B. & O.'s 19.5%, the New Haven's 3%. This slump continued until the Christmas holidays, when the roads experimentally restored the old low rates, got an immediate lift. Hence last week's committee...
Three years ago, onetime New York State Senator John Ambrose Hastings, once one of Jimmy Walker's henchmen and now installed in Washington with the backing of Frank R. Fageol, president of Twin Coach Co. (a bus manufacturer), suggested to Federal Coordinator of Transportation Joseph Eastman that railroad fares be "postalized." Fortnight ago Mr. Hastings popped up again with his scheme, took a full-page advertisement in the New York Times to propound it. Under "postalization," the U. S. would be divided into nine zones, and for each of five types of passenger service the same rate would...
Some products sell particularly well in depressions: neckties-because they are a cheaper way of sprucing up than new suits of clothes; cans-because canned food is generally cheaper than fresh. From an announcement last week by the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange, it appears that coffee may also belong in this special group. As it has in several depression years since 1929, U. S. coffee consumption last year set a new high. The 1938 figure was 14.38 lbs. per person, up 1.34 lb. since...
Last fall New York City's loquacious little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was sued for $100,000 slander by one William Weidberg, 32. Brooklyn lawyer who charged that when he heckled the Mayor at a political rally, the Mayor called him a "ginmill bum." Last week a New York State Supreme Court decision dismissed the action, called the words "at their worst, merely abusive and ill-chosen...
...Uptown at the Rehn Galleries was a show of large, firmly painted water colors by Charles Burchfield, in which that famous first of the "U. S. Scene" artists proved his widening scope. When Burchfield began to paint in upstate New York, he loved and satirized the blackening monuments of "General Grant Gothic" architecture in U. S. houses and streets. In his later work, satire is supplanted by more profound emotion. Most dramatic if not the finest example: December Twilight: a cold, desolate village against a furnace slit of sunset...