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Early one evening last week a Coast Guard searchlight fell upon a barge unloading somewhere near Ambrose Light-ship in lower New York Bay. A speed boat cast off from the barge slipped away toward New Jersey. A low-slung power cruiser cast off, headed for the Brooklyn shore. The barge...
...great arms of defense-yet it is with difficulty that we vote a twentieth part of that sum towards national health and national education. Somehow it is hard to 'sell' an intangible thing like protection of children, yet we 'buy' a $17,000,000 cruiser without raising an eyebrow...
...Reporter Martin Quigley quit his job with the Chicago evening Post and two months later began publishing the Exhibitors Herald. After absorbing two competitors, Motography, Motion Picture World, the magazine became the potent Exhibitors Herald-World and Publisher Quigley was a millionaire, with a summer home in Connecticut, cabin cruiser, polo ponies. By his acquired enthusiasm for polo, Publisher Quigley was impelled to back Editor Peter Vischer in starting Polo magazine, which he subsequently sold to Harper & Bros. (TIME, May 19). Also he publishes the smart fortnightly Chicagoan, which not long ago "turned the corner...
...Toronto. He started in business as bicycle salesman, then sold National Cash Registers. In 1913 he became general manager of International Time Recording Co., later vice president of International Business Machines Corp. He lives in Chicago, has two daughters. He has a country home in the Adirondacks, a cruiser on Lake-of-the-Woods...
...passengers, 1,000 mi. with 20. In general conformation the 8-40 will resemble the 10-passenger Sikorsky amphibian now in common use. The wingspread, however, will be 114 ft.; the loaded weight, 30,000 lb.; and the 58-ft. hull will have the cabin facilities of a commodious cruiser...