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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still the Hudson was unbridged, and still the North River Bridge Co. was more a prospectus than a performance. Furthermore, the Pennsylvania R. R., now snugly located in Manhattan, could not well be expected to take interest in additional bridges. And Builder Lindenthal and his associates were growing old. Undiscouraged, however, he continued with his plans. After the conclusion of the War, he suggested that an admirable War Memorial would be a bridge across the Hudson, but this suggestion met with no great approval. Some six years ago, when even New York's City Fathers had begun to catch...
...steel. For with Major General Edgar Jadwin, U. S. Army Chief of Engineers, was filed an application for permission to construct a suspension bridge from West 57th Street, Manhattan, to New Jersey. First announce ments of the application linked the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. with the North River Bridge Co., told how the B. & O. was determined to get into New York, discussed plans and specifications not only of the bridge but of a great railroad terminal in the neighborhood of West 57th Street and Ninth Avenue. Except for the fact that the bridge clearance was not quite high enough...
Perhaps Builder Lindenthal will be able to solve all his problems, and perhaps the City of New York will build his bridge if the B. & O. does not. But by 1930 the North River Bridge Co. will have been in existence for 40 years. And Builder Lindenthal will be 79 years...
Elected. David A. Crawford of Chicago, executive vice president of Pullman Co.; to be president, succeeding the late Edward Francis Carry of Chicago...
Resigned. Junius Parker of Rye, N. Y.; from the board chairmanship of American Tobacco Co. and the presidency of American Cigar Co. In the latter office he is succeeded by President George Washington Hill of American Tobacco...