Word: importance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From California's sunny foggy strand to Manhattan's rocky banks went news last week of great import for future air lanes. In California, the West Coast Airship Board, headed by Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chose a 1700-acre tract at Sunnyvale, 50 air miles from Mare Island Navy Yard (at San Francisco). This tract was the Board's first choice of an anchorage. Second was some 2,000 acres, near San Diego, a; Camp Kearney recommended for a mooring mast...
...roughly, what is done for companies like International Harvester, General Motors, and Standard Oil of New Jersey by their own overseas selling and distributing organizations. Bush Service will assume full responsibility for shipments from the point of origin to the point of distribution, handling all repacking, marking, routing, and import requirements that arise en route. It will "provide adequate and reliable information regarding foreign markets and conditions" to its customers. By assuming responsibility for the shipment while en route, Bush Service will be able to give the exporter what is known as "a continuous document of possession," so that...
...railroads ignored his tiny terminal, he called it to their attention by buying many a carload of hay in Michigan and sending it to himself via Bush Terminal. To impress on steamship lines the existence of his terminal, he hired two Norwegian tramp steamers and began to import to himself via Bush Terminal tons and tons of bananas from Jamaica. Today twelve steamers dock at the Bush Terminal on an average day, and one-fifth of the freight handled in New York passes through it. With quiet pride Mr. Bush says of his terminal : "I have built...
...ruined apse behind the lines. There they sing songs of war-not bawdy ditties or rousing marches, but strange and awesome chants. This lyricism, now solo, now antiphonal, now choral, is a poetic, formalized utterance. The diction is abominable-words can only be guessed at-but the import of these Gaelic spirituals can be felt. Mystic and throbbing, they express the soldiers' gruesome mission and man's revolt from the ghastliness he has made for himself...
...ways enthusiastic about his projects, especially large public fountains or memorials. He believed that modern architects should not try to imitate what has gone before but at the same time should keep in the traditions, that the radical work being done in Germany and France today is of little import because of its lack of artistic foundation. When he was asked to design the St. Ambrose Chapel in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, he made a Renaissance design, saying that Gothic, in which the Cathedral is built, was a splendid form but had no bearing on the 20th...