Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less experienced half of the Dartmouth squad traveled to New York's Lake Placid, to face eight other Eastern college teams in the Lake Placid Club's annual invitation tournament. The first day curly-haired Ed Meservey won the cross-country race, followed by two Dartmouth teammates in second and third place. Next day Ed Wells, who had won the slalom the day before, placed first in the downhill. On the final day Meservey placed second in the ski jump, which gave him first place in the combined cross-country & jump, brought Dartmouth's score...
Last week on the anniversary of this pioneer broadcast in Calvary Church- largest Episcopal Church between New York and the Mississippi-Rector van Etten again broadcast on KDKA. He organized a choir with numerous boys whose fathers had sung in the 1921 service, had it accompanied by the organist of the original broadcast. An extempore sermonizer, Dr. van Etten found the notes of his first broadcast, attempted to reconstruct his 17-year-old words, ad libbing as well on the wonders of radio...
Last spring, to celebrate its 110th year and simultaneously to symbolize the new era in railroading, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad launched a new streamliner named the "Royal Blue." Last week the Royal Blue was still swashbuckling on its New York-Washington run and the B. & O. system was still operating the 12,000 miles of track between Kansas City, Chicago, Pittsburgh and the Atlantic coast that have long made it a ranking U. S. road. But as 1937 expired it became evident that B. & O. would remember it not so much as an anniversary but as one of the bitterest...
...Northern. One-third of the newsprint used in the U. S. (3,700,000 tons last year) is made in the U. S.; almost one-third of the newsprint made in the U. S. is made by Great Northern. Great Northern's customers include Scripps-Howard, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Sun and some 200 smaller papers. To them Great Northern's president, handsome William Arthur Whitcomb, has not been tough in making prices. Result is that he is popular with publishers but poison to his colleagues in the newsprint industry...
...latest bomb in its recent attack on the New York stock exchange, the Securities & Exchange Commission last week released its annual report to Congress, declaring that national exchanges have not yet demonstrated their capacity "to police their markets effectively against manipulative and deceptive practices." Hardly was this news on the streets when-giving a convenient plausibility to its assertion- SEC brought formal charges of manipulation in the stock of Auburn Automobile Co. against two partners of the important brokerage house of E. F. Hutton & Co. and a floor trader on the New York stock exchange. Most startling...