Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enjoying the brisk October sunshine, a middle-aged man strolled along Manhattan's art-dealers row, East 57th Street, last week. Before the E. & A. Silberman Galleries he paused, startled. In the window was a large and ancient painting of Susanna. And Susanna was naked. The middle-aged man entered...
...While these stirring developments riveted all attention on Washington, the American Bankers Association was holding its 57th annual convention in Atlantic City. The bankers met in two open sessions, nominated new officers, drew up some resolutions, elected the new officers (Harry J. Haas of First National Bank, Philadelphia, president) and quietly returned to their homes to find out what had happened...
...increased approaches. The Army's specifications, it said, would add $25,000,000 to a cost that already rose close to $200,000.000. But the Army insisted on 200 ft. clearance to accommodate the masts of the Leviathan, Majestic, Olympic, Bremen and Berengaria, which otherwise could not get above 57th Street. The Bridge company pointed out that 135 ft. was the highest liner stack, offered to put collapsible masts on vessels that could not get under their span. The Army's decision was a victory for the Fifth Avenue Association and other civic groups who argued that the congested midtown...
...that same year the Pennsylvania opened its Manhattan terminal. For two decades he has been plotting and planning how he could get his line across the river to compete with the Pennsylvania in the country's richest passenger market. A huge Hudson River bridge to Manhattan's 57th Street seemed the solution. Though no official sponsor, President Willard rooted hard for this project. Now he is 70 years old; his great career as a railroader is drawing to a natural close. The War Department's disapproval meant that he would probably never live to see the day when...
Austrian-born Engineer Gustav Lindenthal, builder of New York City's Hellgate Bridge, co-builder of the Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnels under the Hudson River and planner of the prospective bridge to span the Hudson at Manhattan's 57th Street, celebrated his 81st birthday and said: "In half a century, perhaps . . . New York will . . . rise a great, white, shining city, such as the world has never known, and men will be more at peace there than anywhere on the earth. . . . But I know what will happen in 200 years. . . . New York will be like a ripe apple. All things...