Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grey water and green trees, but his thoughts were not on the works of nature but on the works of man. Why not (thought he) build a bridge across the river? It was seven years since Engineer Roebling had finished bridging the East River with his famed Brooklyn Bridge. Why should not the Hudson be spanned as well? So Engineer Lindenthal thought of two high towers with long chains sweeping down from their tops, and of the bridge itself, hung from these chains by a myriad of suspension wires that made a harplike structure with strings of steel...
Married. Siegfried Roebling, 38, of Bernardsville, N. J., descendant of the engineers Roebling who built Brooklyn Bridge; and one Mildred K. Kunath, 23, of Matawan, N. J.; in Manhattan...
...Nelson ashore. Alibi-skillful, authentic crook-play with dialog. The Letter- Maugham melodrama with Jeanne Eagels and good synchronization. Madame X- marks a spot where old-fashioned melodrama becomes good entertainment. (B) The Broadway Melody (records everywhere); The Wild Party ($30,500 Granada, San Francisco); Weary River ($26.300, Strand, Brooklyn); The Barker ($25,000, Loew's State, Los Angeles...
...feel that the investment in itself was wise and profitable." All told, International holds over $10,000.000 of newspaper securities: Boston Herald and Traveler: 10,248 shares (50%) of the common stock bought for $5,380,200. According to a trust agreement this stock is not voted by International. Brooklyn Daily Eagle: $1,954,000 in notes and 400 shares (40%) of a holding company which controls the Eagle. Albany Knickerbocker Press and Evening News: $450,000 of preferred stock and 3,000 shares of common. Ithaca Journal News: $300,000 in notes. Chicago Journal, Greensboro (N. C.) Record...
...handing you herewith check . . . for $2,781,158.30 . . . to repay in full to date with interest your investment in the securities of the Brooklyn Publishing Corp. [which controls the stock of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle], the Albany Press Co. (The Knickerbocker Press, Albany Evening News) and the Ithaca Journal-News...