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...induce the airlines to move their terminus from Newark's busy airport, New York City offered a 558-acre airdrome, of which 357 acres were moved from nearby Riker's Island; six huge hangars, each large enough to house a football gridiron with room for bleachers, six restaurants, one with cocktail lounge and nightclub; offices for rent by the day to busy executives (the most expensive, $75 a day); a sound-proofed engine test building; the finest seaplane terminal in the world where trans-Atlantic planes can dock in the roughest weather. Clear of approach obstructions to jangle...
...RIKER RAMSBOTHAM...
...acres of what had been for years either swamp or unregenerate dump heap, squads of workers have been plowing and digging 24 hours a day since last June. Their job is to transfer about 7,000,000 cubic yards of ashes from the ash dunes of Flushing and Riker's Island to the swamps nearby, leveling off and grading a Fair ground. By day the dust clouds of their operations can be seen from the offices of the World's Fair Corporation designers on the 80th floor of the Empire State Building four miles away. By night...
...summary: 1935 NOBLE AND GREENOUGH Lincoln, Hollis, Cort, Robbins, r.w. l.w., W. Moseley, W. Page Baxter, Pruyn, Holmes, c. c., F. Moseley, Fuller Bacon, Holmes, Page, E., l.w. r.w., Pope, Wam Pruyn, Dow, Glesson, r.d. l.d., Cutler, Riker Watts, Mendlesohn, l.d. r.d., Perry Recce, Schmidt, g. g., Putnam, Johnson...
...cottages" of U. S. tycoons. Largest private house on the island is that of Manhattan's C. Ledyard Blair containing a marble staircase transported from his Fifth Avenue home. Nearby are the houses of Clifford V. Brokaw Jr., Philip Gardiner, Morgan J. O'Brien, Samuel Riker. Just beyond Tucker's Town are Bermuda's two literary shrines: Tom Moore's House, where the Irish author of Lalla Rookh, "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" lived for one year; and Prospero's Cave, a spectacular grotto that is traditionally the site...