PROSPEROUS AMERICA
LAVISH EXPENDITURE
NEW YORK, January 1
Long before midnight it seemed evident that America's metropolis intended to live up to the prediction that it would bid a most boisterous and expensive farewell to the dying year.
Hardly having dug itself out of mountainous snowdrifts after a 24----hour snowfall, to \ remove which the Board of Aldermen yesterday appropriated 1,000,000 dollars, the city nevertheless went gaily about the business of greeting the New Year. Times Square, the theatrical district, was jammed to suffocation. In large hotels supper parties at prices from-five to 25 dollars a person, were attended by the largest crowds in history.' The extent of free spending indicated the degree of economic recovery of the country.
Dispatches from Chicago and other large cities reported the same lavishness in merry-making.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 3
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