Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Power Co. not a new-fangled freighter but a floating power plant with which the company could supplement its electrical production in cases of emergency along the New Hampshire and Maine coast. Inspiration for this translation was, of course, the emergency use of the Navy's aircraft carrier Lexington as a power plant at Tacoma, Wash., last winter (TIME, Dec. 2). Central Maine Power officials decided it would be cheaper to float an auxiliary plant up and down the coast than to build, in a scattered territory fed entirely by water power, emergency steam plants for use in time...
...Building Corp. (not connected with Chrysler Corp.). This gravest report Mr. Chrysler's representatives stoutly denied. They pointed to a retraction they had obliged the New York Daily Mirror to print last summer after Colyumist Walter Winchell gossiped: "The big $13,000,000 Chrysler edifice at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, bought from Sen. Reynolds of Long Beach, L. I., has been taken away from Walter Chrysler. . . . Money troubles." They cited the fact that no newspaper had since printed any suggestion that Mr. Chrysler's tower was slipping from his grasp. They promised a statement "qualifying the fact...
...tallest office buildings in the world were last week officially opened in Manhattan. They were the Chrysler Building, 1,046 ft. 1½ in., at Lexington Ave. & 42nd Street, and the Bank of Manhattan Building, 927 ft. ½ in., at No. 40 Wall Street...
...Henry Pryor Almon Abbott learned last week that he must remain on duty as bishop (Episcopalian) of the Lexington, Ky., diocese. Bishop Abbott tendered his resignation last month after one of his parish priests, Julius Arnold Velasco, had married a Roman Catholic girl against the bishop's insistence. A diocese court cleared the priest of everything but using defamatory language against his chief (TIME...
...serenity of the Church disturbed by the House of Bishops considering an embittered resignation so very soon after his election as Presiding Bishop, it was Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island (TIME, April 7) who, not without difficulty, persuaded Bishop Abbott to remain on duty at Lexington for "the best interests of the Church...