Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edison. In Manhattan, the Edison Pioneers celebrated with a dinner the 79th birth anniversary of Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Mr. Edison basked in the sun at Fort Myers, Fla., but sent them a telegram: "Many thanks. Feeling fine. Weather beautiful. Coconuts are dropping all over the place. Wish you were here." To newspapermen of whom he entertained two large parties during the day, he said: "I couldn't retire. Just like trying to stop smoking cigarets. . . . Inventions are away ahead of the people...
Salutes boomed across the harbor of Arica last week as the U. S. cruiser, Cleveland, slipped in between the Morro fort and the Chilean cruiser, Chacabuco, and landed Major General William Lassiter at the port-city of Tacna-Arica, where he is to succeed General Pershing as Chairman of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission (TIME...
...Other lines stretch from St. Louis to Kansas City, St. Paul and Minneapolis. Altogether it covers 14 Midland states. At St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis and elsewhere it makes contact with the Frisco. Thus the southern termini of the merged lines will be Pensacola, Fla., on the east, and Fort Worth, Tex., on the west; in the north Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis; in the west Denver; and in the near east, St. Louis. The proposed merger brings out some intricacies of railroad financing. The Rock Island and the Southern Pacific have long worked together; have run through trains from...
...page from the social register." A tract of 3,600 acres midway between Palm Beach and Miami was in hand. There was ocean frontage with the Gulf Stream only 3 miles offshore. There were the Dixie Highway, the East Coast Canal, the East Coast Railway, and hard beside, Fort Lauderdale with a fine natural harbor. Architecture was to be of the Mediterranean-Caribbean type, carefully supervised so that "each house, however simple, shall be an artistic gem." Though great estates were being planned-golf clubs, yacht club, huge hotel, casinos-particular attention was being paid to modest private establishments...
...Bruno of the Fokker Aircraft Corporation entertained reporters by revealing one of Mr. Fokker's hobbies: "Not long ago he indulged his taste for air photography while we were making a survey of possible air routes in Florida. During the whole of a flight over the Everglades, from Fort Myers to Miami, Mr. Fokker kept a sharp lookout for alligators. Whenever he saw a group of them, we swooped down over the swampland and Mr. Fokker ground away at his motion picture camera...