Word: 39th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Better Homes in America competition, with a 1½-story cottage which a jury found "admirable, compact, convenient, well lighted and well aired." He planned the model ''America's Little House" which currently stands in Manhattan at the corner of Park Avenue and 39th Street...
...Flush with a $37,500,000 PWA loan, the Port of New York Authority is hard at work on a second vehicular tube to New Jersey, the Midtown Hudson Tunnel at 39th Street. Eased into place by tugs last week was a bright red. hollow cube of steel as big as an eight-roomed house. After riveters build its steel walls higher, diggers working under compressed air in the lower chamber of the caisson will excavate enough mud to permit the base to settle down 100 ft. below water level. From that point they will dig sideways toward New Jersey...
...Echtzel Wendel died in 1931, she left to five charitable institutions the bulk of the $36,000,000 fortune which old John Gottlieb Wendel had founded in the fur trade and grounded in Manhattan. To small Drew University of Madison, N. J. fell the lamed Wendel mansion on 39th Street and Fifth Avenue, with a high-fenced side yard which was maintained exclusively for Spinster Wendel's toothless, asthmatic poodle Tobey. Last week it was learned that Drew University had leased the site of the Wendel mansion for a long term to S. H. Kress & Co. who planned to build...
Late winter rains fell coldly on the cotton fields and broomstraw of Tennessee last fortnight, causing three postponements of the 39th running of the national bird dog championship field trials. Twenty-five of the country's top dogs were entered but only 14 finally started, the smallest number ever to compete for the $1,500 stake. Ten dogs were withdrawn at the last moment and one, the famed pointer Schoolfield, only dog ever to win three great stakes on quail, pheasant and prairie chicken, died suddenly of ptomaine poisoning. For a generation the national championships have been run over...
Died. Tobey, 8, "richest dog in the world." last of the succession of poodles, all named Tobey, owned by the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel; at the hands of a veterinary; in the ancestral Wendel home at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. One reason why Ella, last of the eccentric Wendel spinsters, never sold the valuable lot on which the old house reared its red-brick ugliness, was the counsel of her grandfather: Buy, never sell. A more important reason, to her, was that the Tobeys might have a yard to play in. She died two years...