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Last year they met and shook hands beneath the bottom of the Hudson River. This year they met and shook hands above the Hudson's surface-two Irish-blooded politicians, neighbors, mutual admirers; Governors Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York and Arthur Harry Moore of New Jersey. Last year's ceremony was to celebrate the opening of the Holland Vehicular Tunnel between lower Manhattan and Jersey City (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926). On that occasion, gold teeth flashing and freckles getting lost in dimples, the Governors had jocularly pushed and pulled each other across the interstate line. Last week...
...largest power pool of a fortnight ago, last week became a part of a larger largest power pool. A fortnight ago Thomas N. Carter of Public Service Gas & Electric Co. of New Jersey announced the merger of his company with Philadelphia Electric Co. and Pennsylvania & Light Co. (TIME, Sept. 26). Their transmission lines of 208 miles represented the largest linkage yet. Last week directors of the company of which Mr. Carter's is a subsubsidiary-United Gas Improvement*-agreed with directors of the Philadelphia Electric Co. (already a part of the earlier merger) to pool their power resources. Their...
Another common error is in stating there were 13 colonies at the time of the Revolutionary war. Pennsylvania was not a colony of Great Britain in the same sense that New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, etc., were colonies ruled by British. According to the charter granted William Penn his domain was a Province, owned entirely by Penn and his heirs until the time of the Revolutionary war, with the inhabitants paying rental or taxes to the Pern family. While the government con- trolled the Province by certain legislation yet Pennsylvania was a government by a Proprietor until the Declaration...
Last week Thomas N. McCarter* of the Public Service Electric and Gas Co. of New Jersey, announced the formation of a gigantic merger which will unite his company to the Philadelphia Electric Company and the Pennsylvania and Light Company. Perhaps the world's largest power pool, this combination will control three transmission lines, totaling 208 miles, costing $26,000,000. In 1930, new apparatus complete, the merged companies will begin to function...
...many echoes of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's heroism, not the least sincere is the symphonic portrayal, We, composed by James Philip Dunn of Jersey City, N. J. At City College, Manhattan, where the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra under Willem van Hoogstraten plays nightly to music lovers in the summer, We last week had its premiere...