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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tank is the gift of J. H. Rand Jr. 'OS, of the Remington-Rand Corporation and was built at a cost of $135,000. It is the first in the country which will be able to give both high and low pressures, for which purpose each compartment is equipped with two doors. The apparatus was constipueted at Akron Ohio, according to plans drawn up by A. J. Van Woert of the Harvard Engineering School...
Peculiar was the trifling 600-lb. plane tested at Akron, Ohio, last week by Vearne Clifton Babcock, designer. Wings taper from narrow tips to broad bases at the fuselage. The fuselage is slim, rudder and stabilizers small. The motor is a 65 h. p. midget radial, built by the Le Blond Aircraft Engine Corp. of Cincinnati. At the machine's centre of gravity is the cockpit with two seats side by side. That location of the cockpit helps maneuver the machine, Designer Babcock found in his tests. The plane...
Oscar Tschirky, it is said, passed by while excavations were in progress. "What's going to be built here?" he asked; and learning that it was to be a new hotel, he asked...
More recently, when hotels, planned on a far more luxurious basis, had been built to compete with the aging dignity of the Waldorf-Astoria, the hotel was taken over by Waldorf-Astoria, Inc., of which General T. Coleman du Pont was a director. It is this corporation which last week sold the property to the Bethlehem Engineering Corp. The new owners stated that they would erect, on the Waldorf-Astoria site, a 50-story office building...
...affiliation between the Bank of the Manhattan Co. and International Acceptance is particularly important in the field of international banking. The Bank of the Manhattan Co. has hitherto confined itself chiefly to New York City, where it has built up some 50 branches. International Acceptance, on the other hand, with its Warburg German connections, has specialized in international enterprises. The combination in effect puts the combined resources of the two banks into the international field...