Word: novaes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...uncle, who apprenticed him to the banking profession. Three years' training, and he was accepted by the Bank of British North America, in its London establishment. Soon he crossed the Atlantic, continuing his study and practice of banking in Montreal, Manhattan, Halifax. The directors of the Bank of Nova Scotia, struck by his distinguished bearing and demeanor, engaged him as paying teller, and, aged 30, as branch in spector. They sent him to Minneapolis to open a new branch. There the Northwestern National Bank made him cashier and he in turn made the North western one of the strongest...
...United Hotels Corporation, in addition to 18 running hotels (including the new Roosevelt in New York), has five more under construction; viz, the Benjamin Franklin at Philadelphia; the Olympic at Seattle; the Alexander Hamilton at Paterson, N. J.; the Admiral Beatty at St. Johns, Nova Scotia; the Niagara at Niagara Falls...
...being out of the glorious adventure so near the goal, burst into uncontrollable tears. With difficulty his comrades quieted him, cheered !him further with the news that by express command of the Chief of Air Service himself, a new Douglas World Cruiser was on its way to Pictou, Nova Scotia. Here Wade will rejoin the flight and sail triumphantly home with his comrades...
Some incompleted or newly-begun projects are: 1) A monument to poet Longfellow in Grande Pré, Nova Scotia, scene of Evangeline; 2) a monument to Commodore Perry, near Erie, Pa., scene of the Battle of Lake Erie; 3) a movement to turn into a National Museum the Sub-Treasury Building, Wall Street, where Washington took oath of office; 4) a scheme for building a paved highway from New York to San Francisco, flanked all the way by monuments, as a memorial to the Americans who died...
...dash across the Atlantic by way of the Orkney Islands, Iceland and Greenland, to Labrador. By Monday all preparations were complete, and the fliers waited only for the chain of U. S. naval vessels, commanded by Admiral Thomas P. Magruder, to take up their positions. The cruiser Milwaukee reached Nova Scotia to make maps of the region over which they will pass; the Danish steamer Gertrude Rask smashed through the ice to Greenland to carry supplies for them...