Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baby tank; in this staggering vehicle he would ride amiably up and down the solemn rocks and rills of New England, accompanied by two or more large, barking, shaggy dogs. Verbose, clever, dynamic, Cortland Bishop has vast enthusiasms; it is now his plan for the indefinite future to build, upon one of his properties in Manhattan, an art auction gallery that will enable him to surpass Christie's in every detail and thus to secure for U. S. collectors some of the great paintings that have hitherto escaped them...
Retiring-Commodore Hartley did not go into the cotton business after all, instead he accepted a post as "chief operating officer" of the Transoceanic Corp., an organization which hopes to borrow money from the Shipping Board to build six fast liners and inaugurate a four-day trans-atlantic service to Europe. Said Chief Operating Officer Hartley: "I thank God for this opportunity ... to put our country back on the high seas...
...wins which can tower fastest and highest to strike from above. Having learned that the same is true of fighting airplanes, the War Department has ordered some "Super-Hawks," capable of towering and fighting as high as man ever flew.* The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co., commissioned to build five "Super-Hawks," last week issued some of their specifications...
Cincinnati, Queen City of the West, focus of seven trunk railroads, sent 1,000 of its leading citizens to the capacious roof garden of its Hotel Gibson last week to dine with George Dent Crabbs and to laud him with all their might for persuading the railroads to build a $40,000,000 freight terminal and a $35,000,000 union station. Other Cincinnatians had striven towards the same ends since 1899. Mr. Crabbs, president of the Cincinnati Railroad Terminal Development Co., after only four years of wise, eloquent persuasion, succeeded...
...small Licking River that runs north through Kentucky,* was for decades the commercial gateway from the North to the South. Traders, some Jews, from Cincinnati were the first businessmen to settle in many a southern hamlet, village and town. So thriving was Cincinnati that when private developers would not build a railroad to Chattanooga, Tenn., the city itself provided funds and built the Cincinnati Southern Railway, 336 miles long, the only first class railroad owned by a U. S. municipality. Cincinnati was the Queen City of the West...