Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bowling is almost as old as history. Ten pins, which is modern U. S. bowling, started when nine pins was declared illegal in 1875. Father of U. S. bowling was Joseph ("Uncle Joe") Thum, whose two alleys under the German restaurant he ran on New York's Greenwich Street in 1880 comprised the first U. S. "bowling academy." He was the organizer and perennial president of the United Bowling Clubs which formed the American Bowling Congress in 1895. He died last January, just too soon to witness the first Bowling Congress ever held where U. S. bowling started...
...York's Court of Appeals denied the suit of twelve-year-old Peter Alfred Constantin Maria Salm to escape a $1,727,02..? State inheritance tax on his third of the $10,000,000 estate left by his grandfather, Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers...
...Francisco is served by only one airline, United, which flies in from New York and also operates up & down the coast from San Diego to Vancouver. TWA, which now flies from New York to Los Angeles, and once flew from there to San Francisco, has long wanted to start an off-line spur from Albuquerque to San Francisco. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce backed the scheme, but United naturally opposed it. Under Section 15 of the Air Mail Act of 1934, the I. C. C. has power to authorize new lines, but. apparently may not permit a new service...
...Jean Cocteau, Cinemactor Robert Taylor. Julius ("Pete") Street Jr. wrote about Princeton's Triangle Club show under the pseudonym of Peter Street. An article on "The Insolence of American Women" was contributed by a Baron Giorgio Sudani, organizer and president of the Noblemen's Club of New York...
Bonds had been soft all week before the deluge of selling orders hit the Government bond section of the New York Stock Exchange. Most of the business in Government bonds is normally done over-the-counter by big dealers, and $10,000,000 worth of trading in Governments on the Stock Exchange is considered a boom day. Last week in what was a grey if not a black Friday the Exchange volume mounted to $23,450,000, biggest day in 16 years...