Word: n
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Edward Palmer York, 63, Manhattan architect (York & Sawyer?Bowery Savings Bank, Guaranty Trust Building, Pershing Square Building), of Princeton, N. J. & Stonington, Conn.; after an operation; in Manhattan. Like many a famed architect, Mr. York served his apprenticeship with McKim...
...population, but only 22,000 motor vehicles, 40,000 tractors. Complementary to this intention the Soviet has just placed a $250,000 order for truck engines and transmissions with Hercules Motor Corp. of Canton, Ohio, and Brown-Lipe-Chapin Co. (G. M. C. subsidiary) of Syracuse, N. Y. Russians will assemble the machinery in Russian-made 3½-ton trucks and busses...
...Pennsylvania. This is important in view of the growing commerce with South America. New York City might also be relieved of some of her traffic congestion, to the benefit of shippers, if to the chagrin of trans-shippers. Neighboring cities might benefit, places like Port Newark, N. J., and Norfolk, Va. All four railroad systems would carry grain and manufactured articles eastward. The Pennsylvania, C. & O. and B. & O. would go through soft coal country (western Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia), the New York Central and Pennsylvania through hard coal country (eastern Pennsylvania). Pennsylvania and B. & O. would serve the middle...
...Taplin brothers of Cleveland want the Wheeling, as they do the Western Maryland, to hook up with their short Pittsburgh & West Virginia and form a private Lakes-to-Ocean coal road. So they demanded that the I. C. C. forbid the B. & O., N. Y. Central and Van Sweringens to own the Wheeling. The I. C. C. last week continued to cogitate...
...N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R.: Edward G. Buckland, 62, to be Chairman of the Board; with the additional duties of Presi dent until the election of a successor to the late President E. J. Pearson...