Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deficit reduction and the Shouse appointment were Chairman Raskob's retort to disgruntleds of the party who seek his resignation. "Just soliciting," he said, had raised some $500,000 (chiefly in the East). Sale of the campaign speeches of Alfred Emanuel Smith in book form at $2 per copy, had brought in more than...
Almost 40 years ago Bridge Builder Gustav Lindenthal strolled along the east bank of the Hudson, looked across the river to the Weehawken side. He could see blue sky and grey water and green trees, but his thoughts were not on the works of nature but on the works of man. Why not (thought he) build a bridge across the river? It was seven years since Engineer Roebling had finished bridging the East River with his famed Brooklyn Bridge. Why should not the Hudson be spanned as well? So Engineer Lindenthal thought of two high towers with long chains sweeping...
There have been many other bridges under which the waters east of Manhattan have flowed since that time, and tunnels, too, have been built both east and west. In 1896 the Williamsburg Bridge was begun; in 1901 the Queensboro and the Manhattan. But none of these bridges were over Builder Lindenthal's river, although, as city commissioner of bridges he redesigned the Williamsburg Bridge and aided in the construction of the others. Meanwhile Railroader Rea, having found bridging the Hudson an insoluble financial problem, turned his attention to tunnels, and for him Consulting Engineer Lindenthal worked on the building...
...current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, in which he pointed out that the derisive exploitation of Lampy's attack on the House Plan resulted in "far-reaching injury to the University through the destruction of much good will built up by the patient efforts of Harvard Clubs and alumni, East and West...
Asia and Back. All alone, Parker Cramer took off last week from Nome, Alaska, flew out over ice-filled Bering Strait, dropped packages at Cape Wales and on Diomede Island, reached East Cape in Siberia, returned to Nome: 400 mi. roundtrip. Next flight: from Nome to New York (not non-stop...