Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hudson, Ohio, one Jim Sorgi was last week working on a 90-foot, home-made rocket in which he expects to fly to the moon...
Last fortnight's news that Niagara-Hudson Power Corp. (J. P. Morgan & Co.) had acquired Frontier Power Corp. (Mellon interests) set Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York agog (TIME, Sept. 23). The news meant that 80% of New York State would now be served by one hydro-electric company. While the headlines of Governor Roosevelt's announcement that waterpower must be saved for the public from the Power Trust were still streaming across the front pages of newspapers, reporters received a novel invitation. They were invited to assemble within the precincts of No. 23 Wall Street, the House...
...Delaware & Hudson, a railroad only 884 miles long, has been said to run from "nowhere to nowhere." This jibe does injustice to Wilkes-Barre and Montreal, but nevertheless it had point last week when D. & H.'s shaggy bearded chief, Leonor Fresnel Loree, popped out with a proposal that the D. & H. should be given practically all the railroads of New England and a long list of others, six of which are bigger and longer than the nowhere-to-nowhere...
Commentators saw in the St. Lawrence transaction a Mellon-Morgan alliance, quickly created a super-superpower project by linking the Mellon-Pennsylvania properties, the Morgan-New York properties, and adding Manhattan's New York Edison and Consolidated Gas for good measure. It was also rumored that Niagara-Hudson was negotiating with Stone & Webster for Eastern Utilities Associates, a group of light and power companies operating chiefly in New England. Out of all the rumors and rumbles, however, salient emerging points were: 1) That J. P. Morgan & Co. has undoubtedly become acutely interested in light and power; 2) That...
...photographed the house on which it alighted. Duisburg police soon arrested the blackmailer. Less smart were Manhattan police last April when a Dr. Louis Alofsin received a pair of pigeons and a demand for $10,000. Police, futile with field glasses on housetops, watched the birds fly across the Hudson to New Jersey...