Word: pine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leave" from direct command of Cities Service and Henry L. Doherty & Co., he decided to celebrate his 62nd birthday by returning and becoming again the active executive head of both. Coincidental with his birthday was the opening of his new building in Manhattan, "Sixty Wall Tower" (at No. 70 Pine Street). The building cost $7,500,000, stands on land of the same value. Its 67 stories and 950-ft. height rank it as Manhattan's third tallest. Notable innovation in it are double-deck elevators, one compartment of which stops at even floors, the other at odd floors...
...carved Chippendale chair reproduced in antique pine, instead of the usual mahogany, and was bought because of its design, along with several other pieces. While I was in this exhibition booth, Queen Mary came in. The "pleased look" was not for me, but merely the manifestation of the royal goodwill towards all loyal Britishers...
Perhaps the most important artists represented are Benjamin Karfiol, Morris Kantor, and Reginald Marsh. Karfiol has four pictures in the exhibit: "Picnic", "Torso", "Pine Island", and "The Yellow Drape." Two large canvases, "Staircase" and "Still Life with Glass Bottle" are the works of Morris Kantor, whose more recent pictures hint toward Victorian subjects treated in the Modern Manner. In the two temper paintings "Tenth Avenue" and "Locomotive Watering," Reginald Marsh has suppressed the brilliant coloring which formerly characterized his pieces...
...upper fastnesses of Minnesota, amid a stubby growth of pine and spruce there lies Itasca Lake. Here rises the Mississippi. In the early spring of 1541 canoes floated down the sluggish current of this river that drains the mountain ranges of the United States, and a Spaniard discovered the Father of the Waters. But fever hangs in the mists of the low country and on one black night DeSoto's body was lowered away into the quiet water...
Other physicians who, according to Federal Trade Commission information, have used their professional discretion to make use of "Radithor'' include: Thomas S. Pitt of Pine Tree Health Resort, Highpine, Me.; Benjamin Franklin Bowers, St. Benedict, Pa.; Lillian Morgans, Middletown, N. Y.; Gustave Desy, Millbury, Mass.; J. Frank Small, York, Pa.; Mark Manley, Brooklyn. None of their patients is known to have died...