Word: niagara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thrust another puzzle at seafaring man. Over the Georges Banks, where haddock, cod and mackerel run and the seabottom is in many spots but 12 ft. deep, a whirlpool appeared. Whirlpools, whether in the ocean like the anciently famed & feared Maelstrom west of Norway, or in rivers as below Niagara Falls, so far as man has ever known swirl towards a centre...
...Niagara Plunger...
...woman and two men, all of them in well-padded containers, have gone over Niagara Falls and come up alive.* All of them went over the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side. No man ever lived through a ride over the rock-bottomed American Falls. Yet last week a stray police dog blundered over the American side and came out to shake himself on the bank...
Banking 6 Power. Marine Midland Corp. last week acquired its 17th bank, also two important new directors. The bank was First & Second National Bank & Trust Co. of Oswego, with $5,700,000 in deposits. The directors were Niagara Hudson's Floyd Leslie Carlisle and Henry Edmund Machold, vice president of F. L. Carlisle & Co., both of whom had been directors of the Oswego bank. Their election strengthens the community of in- terest between the $784,000,000 Niagara Hudson power system and the $586,000,000 banking group...
...Winslow, Lanier & Co. he was U. S. representative of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin (1893-1914) whose subscription to one-fourth of a $100,000,000 gold loan to the U. S. Treasury helped avert panic in 1896. A backer of Edison Electric Light Co., he organized the International Niagara Commission which was headed by Lord Kelvin, famed British scientist. As president (1890-99) of Cataract Construction Co. he led the development of power at Niagara Falls; for this he was given the John Fritz Gold Medal in 1926. Philanthropist, art patron, he enjoyed listing his membership in scores...