Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inevitable that sooner or later the French would be driven by their imagination to take a hand in the game. Last week it happened. The French Government, in combination with Builder Irwin S. Chanin and Banker Simon William Straus, dramatically revealed a $50,000,000 Gallic dream...
...dream begins with a dreamlike name, "Le Palais de France." Its solid basis is a trapezoidal piece of Manhattan Island, 200 feet in shortest dimension, 498 feet in longest, just north of Columbus Circle, comprising the entire block in which the Century Theatre now stands. On this plot the dream will rise, garnished in every one of its 65 stories with the glories of modern French art and architecture. There is even a whisper that its walls may be of glass...
...been based on expected revenue from telephone conversations with Buenos Aires. The point is that A. T. & T. is in a position to take the lead in any major telephone merger that may develop, and every time A. T. & T. and I. T. & T. do something together a great dream is revived...
...event that started the dream was a great communications merger in England, the formation of Cables & Wireless Ltd., the stock of which was traded in for the first time last month. Into that merger the British poured four great cable systems (including one government-owned), the government beam wireless system and the great British Marconi Co. The merger has a huge liquid capital. It owns cable and wireless systems which girdle the globe...
...great U. S. communications companies besides I. T. & T. are Western Union and A. T. & T. The great dream of business matchmakers and romantics begins with the nuptials of the two great T. & T.'s. In their imagination the romantics can already see the ceremony with two handsome groomsmen. Sosthenes Behn, tall, dark, native of the Virgin Islands, and Walter Sherman Gifford, slender, reserved, native of Salem, Mass. It is Mr. Gifford, although only 44, three years Col. Behn's junior, whom they see as godfather and president of the monster offspring, if and when born...