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...Ship was built in 1925, and is classed by the Department of Commerce as a steam-screw vessel...
...Built for $750,000, run on a non-profit basis with proceeds split between the State and the Delaware Steeplechase & Racing Association, Delaware Park (near Wilmington) aims to fill the gap in fashionable Eastern racing between the closing of Belmont Park in June, the opening of Saratoga in August. Noteworthy feature of the plant is a lawn that slopes sharply down from the grandstand to the track to permit spectators to see races without going back to their seats...
...linen duster, William Kissam Vanderbilt II and some rich cronies who wanted to motor to their Long Island homes at 40 m.p.h. without scaring horses and infuriating the public, joined in buying a 50-mi. strip of land down Long Island from Flushing to Lake Ronkonkoma. On it they built a narrow, wriggling ribbon of concrete and macadam with bridges over every crossroad. Total cost: $3,500,000. The Long Island Motor Parkway was thus the first modern type highway. In 1908, 1909 & 1910 Mr. Vanderbilt & friends used five miles of the road together with parts of Jericho Turnpike...
Slave Ship (Twentieth Century-Fox). Last known U. S. slave ship was The Wanderer, built as a yacht, the fastest craft flying the burgee of the New York Yacht Club. In 1857 her owner, John D. Johnson, sold her to a fellow club-member, W. C. Corrie. New York yachtsmen did not know much about Corrie. He was a mysterious but affable gentleman, amply provided with funds, who professed an interest in the finer points of yachting and declared himself in the market for a speedy boat. After buying The Wanderer he was no longer seen around the club. Refitted...
Lord Headley died at 80 two years ago. From London last week came word of a ceremony he would have enjoyed- the cornerstone-laying of London's new mosque. To be built on a $140,000 site in West Kensington, the Nizamiah Mosque is so called because the biggest donation for it, $300,000, was wangled by Lord Headley from the Nizam of Hyderabad & Berar, "world's richest man" (TIME, Feb. 22). Trustees of the mosque include the Aga Khan. The cornerstone was laid by the Nizam's son, the Prince of Berar, to whom the present...