HISTORICAL DATA-1959:

•  JANUARY

•  FEBRUARY

•  MARCH

•  APRIL

•  MAY    At sometime during the end of this month an announcement is made that plans have been made for construction of a 600-room drive-in hotel on a 400-acre site in the East Bronx, New York City. The site is owned by the well-known developers, Webb & Knapp, who plan to devote 200 acres of the site to a $16 million entertainment center which they will call "Freedomland".  (Source: Hotel magazine, May 19, 1969, pg. 6).

•  JUNE:    At about the beginning of this month the National Labor Relations Board in Wahington, D.C. announces that it will take jurisdiction in hotel and motel labor disputes-excluding residential hotels-where the establishment does an annual gross business of US$500,000.00 or more.  (Source: Hotel magazine, May 19, 1969, pg. 6). 

• JUNE:    For the month ended on June 30 of this year in the United States of America the Federal Reserve Board's Index of Industrial Production s "about 17%" higher than its level for December 1958.  (Source:  Monetary Policy and the Financial System - Second Edition, Paul M. Horwitz, co.1969, pg. 413).         

• JULY

•  AUGUST

•  SEPTEMBER

•  OCTOBER

•  NOVEMBER

•  DECEMBER

• (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year F. F. Beirne publishes his book, "Shout Treason: The Trial of Aaron Burr" , his study of the Burr conspiracy.  (Source:  The American Nation...to 1877 , Second Edition  ((Paperback)), John A. Garraty, Supplementary Reading List, pg. 254 ).    

• (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year Conservative Jewish congregation Oheb Shalom moves from Newark, New Jersey to South Orange, New Jersey.  (Source:  New York Times, March 18, 1969, pg. 30).