Word: park
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shouted welcome.† He was Friend Henry Ford. This was only Stage-Setter Ford's prolog. Proudly he led Mr. Edison to a building nearby, the inventor's oldtime laboratory, every plank and gadget of which had been brought to Dearborn, Mich., from Menlo Park, N. J. Ruminantly chewing tobacco as he inspected, Edison scuffed the dirt floor with his toe. "Why, Henry's even got that damn New Jersey clay here," he marveled. There later was to be staged the feature performance-Inventor Edison working by oil lamp over his old bench, tinkering with...
...rink is estimated at $60,000. J. Frederick Larson, college architect, describes the building as a simple structure with main points, balancing the Davis Field House on the opposite wing of the gymnasium. Viewed from the exterior, the rink will appear low, with two prominent main entrances, one facing Park Street at the east end and the other at the west near the gymnasium. There will be four exits in addition to the entrances. The rink will be 220 feet long, with a roof span 116 feet wide and 33 feet above the ice. A patented truss which has been...
Leaving Yale his Sophomore year (1926), Arthur David Schulte had been made vice president of Park and Tilford, Schulte-controlled. Last year it was announced Park and Tilford would form a chain of retail grocery stores. Son Schulte remained a vice president, became a director of other Schulte companies, but no Park and Tilford expansion took place...
Hotel Waldorf-Astoria Corp. The cost of the new Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan, to be completed in 1931 will be $28,100,000. Erected on New York Central property (Park Avenue from 49th to 50th St.) the railroad will furnish up to $10,000,000 toward the hotel's completion. Other funds will come from the sale of stock and an $11,000,000 bond issue, offered last week...
...Manhattan, one Adolph Banzer went swimming in Central Park Lake in the nude. A policeman spied him from the bank, put out in a small boat, lassoed him, towed him ashore...