Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Still undiscouraged, however, he con tinued to plan, to calculate, and last week his project at least reached as far as the newspaper headlines, and his bridge ap peared in diagram if not in steel. For with Major General Edgar Jadwin, U. S. Army Chief of Engineers, was filed an application for permission to construct a suspension bridge from West 57th Street, Manhattan, to New Jersey. First announce ments of the application linked the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. with the North River Bridge Co., told how the B. & O. was determined to get into New York, discussed plans and specifications...
...over. Most disconcerting was the attitude of the B. & O. Said its President Daniel Willard: "Inasmuch as the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad does not with its own rails extend north of Philadelphia at this time, that company is naturally not in a position to give its direct support to the project...
Last week a report leaked out regarding a monumental project: A non-stop around-the-world flight to be accomplished by refueling in the air. The flight is planned to start from New York next September. Capt. Henry W. Lyon Jr. (navigator of the Southern Cross) as navigator, Reserve Lieut. Albert D. Hulse as engineer, with others as yet unnamed, are to be the crew. A plane powered with five 420-h. p. Pratt & Whitney motors, with a cruising speed of 120 m. p. h. is to be the vehicle. Twenty-two refueling stations, including ten for emergency only...
...Bordeaux, across Spain, Portugal and Tangier, out over the Atlantic to Madeira. He returned by the Mediterranean shore of Spain and the Rhone valley. The ship made its first night landing on the small Friedrichshafen field with perfect ease. Coverage: 3,400 mi. in 57 hours continuous flight. Next project: to the U. S., about...
...tended, that practically nothing had been spent for maintenance, which should be some $67,000 per year. He showed that the rarest marbles are expected to chip when turned for columns, that clever repairs are common, not criminal. He stressed the Goodhue integrity, moral and esthetic, which attended the project. Weighty also was other defense evidence. It seemed altogether likely that the report to the legislature would strongly favor the defendants. Architect Goodhue studied all styles. He mastered traditional Gothic only to depart from it in a magical Goodhue Gothic. Finally, so strongly did he feel the Gothic spirit...