Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Thomas Hastings, 69, famed Manhattan architect (Carrère & Hastings); at Mineola, L. I.; after an operation for appendicitis...
...bankers have anticipated by at least two years the commercial transoceanic operation of dirigibles. As expected (TIME, Sept. 16), Manhattan's National City Bank interests organized the International Zeppelin Transport Corp. It will operate German-built dirigibles between Europe, North America, South America. National City's Chairman. Charles Edwin Mitchell was at sea last week, returning from a conference with Dr. Eckener and President Jakob Goldschmidt of the Darmstadter and National Bank. He had Dr. Eckener's declaration that a year will be necessary to enlarge the Zeppelin Works at Friedrichshafen and another year to produce...
...General Motors owns a two-fifths and so practically controlling interest in Fokker Aircraft; 2) the other major owner of Fokker Aircraft is Western Air Express whose president Harris M. Hanshue (also Fokker's president) was in Manhattan last week arranging a 36-hour all-air transcontinental service with Graham Bethune Grosvenor, president of The Aviation Corp. The Aviation Corp., through its subsidiary Universal Aviation Corp. flies from Cleveland to Kansas City. Western Air Express flies from Kansas City to Los Angeles and thence to San Francisco. The project is to extend Universal passenger services eastward to Manhattan...
...exigent early stop is Friedrichshafen where he must meet Dr. Dornier before the German leaves for Manhattan where, the middle of next month, he must confer with the directors of Dornier Corp. of America and help them get started manufacturing his monster seaplanes. At the Friedrichshafen meeting the German and the Hollander will discuss, among other practical things, the usefulness of fulfilling the promise which Dr. Dornier made last week-that next March or April he will send his huge Do-X flying across the Atlantic to demonstrate that heavier-than-air machines can be made as practical as dirigibles...
...National Council of Women of the U. S. meets in Manhattan...