Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nestlings as an eagle rapes a mouse, would shy from the monstrous thing U. S. engineers propose to build for $5,000,000. Who the financiers are, who the builders, was kept secret. That it was a bona fide project Harry Westcott of Westcott & Mapes, Inc., New Haven and Manhattan engineering firm, testified immediately after Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut had predicted such a ship at a dinner of New Haven's august Union League Club. Westcott & Mapes are now estimating their bids on the structural work of not one, but two such planes. The builders expect that...
...mental troubles, Twenty-seven other countries have taken up the movement. Their representatives will meet at Washington next May as the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene. President Hoover is honorary president of the congress. Dr. William Alanson White of St. Elizabeth Hospital, Washington, who spoke lengthily at the Manhattan dinner last week, is actual president. Banker Thomas William Lamont is treasurer...
Golden Gleam, with Capt. Stuart Blake up, lost the Military Team Trophy for the Canadians by committing 20½ faults after the rest of the team had made a perfect score. The Polish team, with 2½ faults, won the cup while hundreds of Manhattan's Polish citizenry outyelled their disgruntled Italian and Canadian neighbors in the gallery...
...sailed last week to attend a Manhattan meeting of the board of directors of Dornier Motors Aircraft Corp. of America, which General Motors Corp. recently formed to make his big seaplanes in the U. S. (TIME...
...Clements Collard Fry. If Dr. Fry cannot straighten the student out, the boy is expelled. Only this month Yale dismissed two men, one a mental case, the other a sensual one. So President Angell boasted at the 20th anniversary dinner of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel...