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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know that Edward W. Bok is building a "Singing Tower" with the finest and largest carillon ever cast, located at Mountain Lake, the highest spot yet found in Florida, near Lake Wales...
...your June 25 issue an article on page 20 deals with the wreck of an express train near Nuremberg, Germany, in connection with the application of the German National Railway Company for an increase of rates. . . . Your article implies that the Nuremberg accident was due to poor condition of the railroad caused by lack of money and that a rate increase would remedy this situation. . . . I have before me the 1927 annual report of the German National Railway Company and find that the number of accidents in 1927, measured by traffic volume, was lower than under the excellent...
...golden dough. They would show Chicago something to write postcards about-the largest and tallest building in the world-75 stories and 845 feet high . . . containing 4,650,000 sq. ft. of floor space . . . costing $45,000.000 . . . covering two blocks with its base . . . comprising a 23 story "apparel-mart" near the ground . . . above that 22 stories of office space . . . above that a 1,000 room hotel ... a garage containing space for 1,200 cars ... a railroad station under the ground . . . swimming pool, auditoriums, restaurants, shops, three clubs scattered about on various floors. . . . Thus, the Apparel Manufacturers' Mart which will...
...bargee in question was one Isobel Stone, 23, lyric-soprano, who was discovered last week, with her sister, Margaret Stone (Mrs. Richard O'Neill), living rent free upon a wretched scow near the slums of Manhattan. She was not a bargee by birth; her father indeed was the late William A. Stone, onetime (1899-1903) Governor of Pennsylvania, defender of famed Harry K. Thaw. A millionaire and a man of fashion, called "Pennsylvania's greatest Governor," he had died in 1920, his large fortune dissipated in unfortunate speculations. Isobel Stone with her sister Margaret was compelled to earn...
Amadeo Peter Giannini convalesces in an ancient princely villa on Lake Nerni, near Rome. There to newsmen he said last week: "Call me 'A. P.,' simply and Americanly...