Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel production rose from 88.6% to 90.3%. The Great Lakes division of efficient, profitable National Steel (which has a tonnage production monopoly in Detroit) had to close one of its 16 open-hearth steel ingot furnaces for too long deferred repairs. New York's Journal of Commerce commented sagely: ". . . May be a forerunner of a general condition in the industry...
Different was the predicament of New York's $157,000,000 World of Tomorrow. Three weeks from closing time, $436,670 of its current liabilities was owed to banks, $500,000 to contractors, another $500,000 immediately due to bondholders, and bills payable topped receivables by $500,000. To meet these quick obligations it had $1,000,000 cash. In New York, as in San Francisco, October's attendance is proving the best of the year (2,492,096 paid admissions for the first two weeks). It looked as if the Fair, by closing day, might just about...
...Heaviest instalment buying was in biggish cities; small cities have less, metropolises like New York and Chicago (where fewer families own automobiles) still less. Farm families did least instalment buying...
Guerino Baldi, Spanish-American War veteran, self-styled artist, accused the "Juries of the American Contemporary Art for the New York World's Fair" of a "perfidious verdict" in rejecting his oil painting. Indignantly wrote Painter Baldi: "I most frankly state that I have revolutionized the art of painting. . . . The reason to boycott my painting took place to protect from monetary disaster and depreciation all the canvas and exterior painting, where there is many billions of dollars involved throughout the world. . . ." Mr. Baldi's rejected work was a picture of Rudolph Valentino fighting a docile bull beneath...
...Manhattan was held a meeting of a society known as the Alden Kindred of New York and Vicinity. Qualifications for membership: to be one of the 5,000,000 descendants of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins-vicinity, it was explained, meaning anywhere in the U. S. Twelve members, none named Alden, showed up, discussed plans for the winter...