Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Important among the dignitaries at the opening was U. S. Ambassador Ogden Haggerty Hammond, onetime New Jersey realtor. So anxious was Ambassador Hammond to help the exposition that he has moved to Seville for the summer...
...London, England. Each of these prizes was $50. The John Osborne Sargent prize of $100 for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace was awarded to Gerald Frank Else '29, of Kansas City, Missouri, and Honorable Mention went to David Demarest Lloyd '31, of Plainfield, New Jersey, and Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson '32, of Tuckahoe, New York...
...bridge itself, hung from these chains by a myriad of suspension wires that made a harplike structure with strings of steel for the wind to play. So, in 1890, was formed the North River Bridge Co., a corporation dedicated solely to the building and operation of a Manhattan-Jersey bridge. Engineer F. W. Roebling was one of the original incorporators; so was the late great Samuel Rea, onetime (1913-25) Pennsylvania R. R. president. So was the late, great Thomas Fortune Ryan (TIME, Dec. 3). But of all that original company, only Builder Lindenthal, now 78, is alive today...
...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 of the 21-ft. cast iron tubes through which travelers from Pennsylvania Station today pass en route to the Jersey mainland. Later, still working with Mr. Rea, Builder Lindenthal came even closer to the realization of his ambition when he bridged Hell Gate, to the north, with a thousand-foot arch of steel...
...least reached as far as the newspaper headlines, and his bridge ap peared in diagram if not in steel. For with Major General Edgar Jadwin, U. S. Army Chief of Engineers, was filed an application for permission to construct a suspension bridge from West 57th Street, Manhattan, to New Jersey. First announce ments of the application linked the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. with the North River Bridge Co., told how the B. & O. was determined to get into New York, discussed plans and specifications not only of the bridge but of a great railroad terminal in the neighborhood of West...