Word: central
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chelsea. To the curbs from tenements and factories packed workingmen, old men, shawled grandmothers, women with babies. "There's Lindy!" went up an eager cry. Col. Lindbergh pulled down the window-shade of his limousine. The procession wove its slow way through Manhattan streets to the Grand Central Terminal, where the coffin was placed aboard a special train, carried to Cleveland for interment...
...Illinois Central's Locomotor. It looks like an interurban or subway electric car, but is a combination steam locomotive and passenger car. Within a sheet steel inclosure is a steam generator only 6 ft. high by 4 ft. diameter. Oil distillate, left after crude oil is refined, keeps superheated steam under 550 to 600 Ibs. pressure. The steam automatically operates two driving engines hung from the car body, and an auxiliary engine which operates lights, fans, pumps. Built experimentally by International Harvester Co.* and the Ryan Car Co., tested by the Illinois Central since last August, this locomotor easily...
...trains under the Hudson River through the Pennsylvania's tunnels into Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan. For almost two years the B. & O. has been motoring its passengers by bus between Manhattan and Jersey City (its own terminus). The B. & O. bus terminal in Manhattan is opposite Grand Central Terminal. *Besides harvesting machinery, International Harvester also makes motor trucks, motor coaches, gasoline and oil engines, wagons, farm implements and binder twine...
Married. Anne Taft Ingalls of Cleveland, daughter of Vice President Albert S. Ingalls of the New York Central R. R., sister of David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics; and Rupert Warburton of London, Pennsylvania-born banker; in Cleveland...
Donors of the manuscript were Trustees George Willets Davison (Central Union Trust Co., Manhattan) and Albert W. Johnston. To procure it Trustee Davison had sent his bank's Berlin representatives to Frau Einstein with an offer to buy. Frau and Dr. Einstein, having no other offers, sold (sum unmentioned). They said they would use the money for welfare work among German university students...