Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buckingham Palace sources threw a cold douche on the hopes of enterprising New York World's Fair officials by predicting that the royal visit would be confined to a four-day stay in Washington. Tentative arrangements call for the King & Queen to sail for Quebec in May aboard the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Repulse, tour western Canada, then cross into the U. S. and head straight for Washington. From there, they are expected to sail on the Repulse for Halifax, N. S., before returning to England...
When not yarn-spinning, salty William McFee writes a weekly column in the New York Sun on shipping, does considerable puttering around his Westport, Conn, home. Last week publishers Doubleday, Doran & Co., launching Author McFee's Derelicts, called attention to one of his neatest puttering jobs, a 30-in. scale model of a lifeboat propelled not by oars, but by a propeller turned by hand levers like those on an Irish Mail scooter...
...piano in Manhattan's old Steinway Hall, crashed and rippled through Liszt's finger-punishing Don Juan Fantasia. Manhattan concertgoers, most of whom had never heard of him, gaped in awe at his flying fingertips. Next day the sedate critic of Manhattan's New York Tribune wrote: "It was a question whether an audience composed of discriminating music lovers in this city has ever been stirred to such a pitch of excitement...
...bulletin recently issued by the International Typographical Union, 320 new dailies started in the U. S., 319 were suspended. Most of the new papers were born in places like Goose Creek. Texas, Aliquippa, Pa. and Lead, S. D. The dead included such sizable city dailies as the New York American, Toledo News-Bee, Rochester Journal, St. Paul News...
...biggest day's trading (3,100,000 shares) on the New York Stock Exchange since Oct. 21, 1937, National Steel rose 42 points, Du Pont 4 points, both reaching new highs for the year, 151¼. Close behind was Bethlehem Steel with a 3¾-point advance. U. S. Steel rose 3¼-points, Chrysler 2½. The New York Times index of 50 stocks made a net gain of 2.52 points, biggest post-election-day advance since the index was started 27 years ago. Two hundred and one stocks hit new 1938 highs...