Word: bronx
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Typical is the hospital in New York's Bronx with 1,850 patients and 115 doctors. Half the doctors expect Army discharges soon. So do a good many enlisted men assigned to hospital chores. The hospital needs 300 more beds right now, and some patients are housed in a nearby naval hospital...
Since last October, when she left a Manhattan hospital, she has been living quietly in a 17-room, rambling Tudor mansion in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, overlooking the Hudson River. She has seen almost no one, not even her nearest neighbor, Maestro Arturo Toscanini...
...crew made up chiefly of kids from The Bronx, Brooklyn and South Boston, and Idaho-born Dixie Kiefer knew how to handle them. The Ti was ragged at first-she would sometimes zig when she was supposed to zag. Her stack often poured smoke. But she settled down. Soon she was breaking records for launching and recovering planes. The raw kids became sensationally good...
After that, Dolly Thackrey reached out. She snapped up some of the Chicago Daily News's once famed foreign staff, expanded the Post's foreign coverage and started a syndicate. She bought Brooklyn's tiny radio station WLIB and the Bronx Home News, a neighborhood paper that concentrates on marriages and bingo parties. She tried and failed to buy the San Francisco Chronicle, then as a consolation prize bought two radio stations, Los Angeles' KMTR and San Francisco's KYA (FCC approval of the purchases is pending...
...Wall Street last week, the Communist Daily Worker was in hot demand. So was pinko PM, which jumped its press run from 175,000 to 475,000. The pro-labor Post and its outpost, the Bronx Home News, had shut up shop; twelve other metropolitan dailies carried on with comparatively minuscule printings-of cut-down issues that were practically devoid of advertising...