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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princeton University's campus, profuse with trees and shrubbery, arched vistas, a descending series of grassy levels patterned with Gothic buildings, is one of the most beautiful in the U. S. But the campus fronts on Nassau Street, main thoroughfare of a casually-built small town. Across the Street is a scraggly row of brick and wood structures, many of which have stood since Princeton undergraduates wore ornate waistcoats and grew full beards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Princeton Town | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Last week Princeton Municipal Improvement, a local corporation run by energetic Princeton alumni, prepared to demolish these eyesores, to make way for a new community centre which will effect a balance of beauty between town and gown. Evicted families have already been provided with newly-built homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Princeton Town | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...connection with Vincent Astor, Marshall Field and Henry D. Whiton, and under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society, he financed Explorer William Beebe's expedition to the Galapagos Islands. On Galapagos there is a volcano now named Harrison Williams. In 1920 he bought the Krupp-built yacht Vanados, then Largest Yacht, rechristened it Warrior, equipped it with apparatus for testing ocean currents and temperatures. In 1926 he married Mrs. Mona Travis Strader Bush, onetime wife of James I. Bush, vice president of Equitable Trust Co. and took the Warrior on a round-the-world honeymoon. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Million-Dollar Names | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...shutting down in numbers for the past several years. And Samuel Insull has been on hand to buy them in, not because he wanted to get into the sagging textile industry but because a textile plant in the hand is a power plant in the bush. Cotton mills are built beside waterfalls and alert Mr. Insull is a maker and seller of electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Insull Textiles | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...percentage of world shipbuilding that is being carried on in British and Irish shipyards, thus establishes Great Britain as builder of slightly more than one-half the world's total ship tonnage. At the close of June there were 2,838,225 tons of ships being built throughout the world. Of this tonnage, British and Irish yards were contributing 1,454,906; all other countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Statistics | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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