Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. Her paternal grandmother's family, she believes, sold the Federal Government the Hudson River bluff on which the U. S. Military Academy stands at West Point, N. Y. Her great-aunt was appointed West Point postmistress by President Polk, served for 49 years. Her mother was born at West Point. Her father, Lieut. Henry Moore Harrington, graduated from the Academy in 1872, was killed with General George Armstrong Custer at the Little Big Horn. For kindly, plain-faced Spinster Grace Aileen Harrington this distinguished ancestry brought its reward: appointment as West Point postmistress...
...bleak little port of Churchill, Manitoba, on the west side of Hudson Bay last week churned the freighter Firby, bound for England with six passengers, a cargo of wheat, flour, timber. The first ship to clear Churchill this year, the Firby was also the first to carry passengers to Europe under an organized booking service. In the past, passengers have occasionally been taken, usually listed as crew. The new arrangement is the latest Canadian effort to make a paying proposition out of Churchill, which was developed as a port five years ago at tremendous cost, has so far proved...
Last year only six freighters visited Churchill. The five-year average of grain exported is a mere 3,000,000 bu. The town, itself, once planned to become a metropolis, remains a huddle of shacks on the naked shingle beside the Bay. The Hudson Bay Railroad runs but one train a week...
...Manhattan streetcar line in the early 1900's when trolley riding was a regular holiday sport. There they were discovered by the late Marcus Loew, who knew smart showmen when he saw them. The theatre man helped them develop Palisades Park across the Hudson River from Manhattan, which they still own, gave them good steers on other amusement investments. Joe Schenck later went to Holly wood where he married Norma Talmadge and headed United Artists for years. Nick Schenck stuck by Loew's, taking over when the founder died in 1927. For box-office results Nick Schenck likes...
...towards its construction. Largely because of this heavy stake, President Roosevelt went to New York City last week to dedicate the new bridge. Chief engineer of the Triborough was Othmar Hermann Ammann, who swung the Port of New York Authority's huge George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River. When his turn came last week to answer President Roosevelt's oratory, Engineer Ammann low-rated the science of his bridge-building by declaring...