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...Permission is granted to Mr. Ryerson, with his negro man, Dick, to pass and repass the picket at Ramapo. Go. Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Forger Spring | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

Whether General Washington ever issued such a pass to Mr. Ryerson and his man Dick, history does not say. Robert Spring issued enough of them to keep Mr. Ryerson and the blackamoor shuttling back & forth past the Ramapo picket for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Forger Spring | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

Bound from Manila to San Diego last year, Commander Whitemarsh found his 477-ft. navy tanker Ramapo wallowing up & down the slopes of waves the like of which he had never seen. As the speeding giants overtook him one after another, he stationed observers in various places, got out his cinecamera. While the Ramapo was borne up a windward slope, an officer on the bridge marked the top of the following wave by a point on the mast. To err on the side of caution, the crest was assumed to be on his horizontal sight line although it was unmistakably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skyscrapers At Sea | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...second quarter of 1933 compared to a loss of $878,800 for the same period a year ago. Price paid was $1,000,000 cash; other considerations, if any, were not published. ¶In Spring Valley, N. Y. Charles Williamson resigned as a director of Ramapo Trust Co., became the bank's janitor-guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Downtown | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

Several packs of wild dogs have been ranging northern New Jersey's game-filled Ramapo Mountains for some 15 years. Dwellers on lonely farms or town outskirts have shivered at the sound of their baying in the night. Hunters have found their trail in the hair & bones of many a deer and rabbit. In their veins runs the blood of abandoned or runaway pets-German shepherd, Airedale, collie, hound. Members of one pack are apparently crossed chow and hound, look like big red foxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wild Dogs | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

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