Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME Spring Lake Beach, N. J. The News-Magazine Oct. 13, 1925. Sirs...
...prize. She would give $1,500, not to mention consolation prizes, for the best name suggested for a 1,500-acre town some real estate men were organizing in the interests of the Rockefeller-McCormick Trust. Names poured in: "Edithwatha," "Edithsdream," "Edithport," "Edithton City," "Lakrenda," "Shadowwood," "Eden Pier," "Krenado Beach" (after Architect Krenn). A Chinaman from Madison, Wis., suggested "Elysians." W. R. Hearst of Maywood, Ill., received a prize of $5 for an inferior title. But a touch of genius fired one Elmer H. Huge of La Porte, Ind. He turned in the name, "Edithton Beach," received...
...Treasury, the stocky Secretary of Labor, the firm-set Postmaster General, the rather unwieldy Secretary of the Navy, the youthful Acting Secretary of War and the three who had welcomed the. incoming train, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Jardine and Mr. Kellogg (clad, this time, in a white palm beach suit and carrying a straw...
...instance there is the question of granting a 5% increase in freight rates to the western railroads. At Chicago, where the Edgewater Beach Hotel rears its creamy buttresses above Lake Michigan, Clyde B. Aitchison, Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, last week opened hearings on this question. Before him came Fred W. Sargent, President of the Chicago and Northwestern, L. E. Wettling, Manager of the Statistical Bureau of the western railways, Charles Donnelly, President of the Northern Pacific, and many another. They came to present the railways' side of the case and were questioned by Mr. Aitchison, by shippers...
...troops were embarked at Melilla to the east and cruised along the Riff coast for two days with convoying battleships, both French and Spanish, shelling enemy works. After two feints, one morning the battleship Paris steamed into Alhucemas Bay and began to shell the Riff positions at the main beach. For four hours the bombardment with 12½-in. guns continued. The Riffs replied with their handful of 6-in. batteries, which of course did no serious damage to the heavily armored Paris. Meanwhile the Spanish troops, 16,000 strong, in steel "beetle boats," the same type as those used...