Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Super-Radiocasting. David Sarnoff, Vice President and General Manager of the Radio Corporation of America, declared that his company was ready to erect a great "superpower" radiocasting station near Manhattan, and later link it up with a series of such stations if the experiment proved successful. The smaller radiocasters were afraid of interference, and a compromise was finally reached for permitting experiments with superpower radio under close supervision...
Died. Dr. William Arnold Shanklin, 62, President Emeritus of Wesleyan University (Middleton, Conn.); in Manhattan, on the steps leading from the Grand Central Terminal to the Lexington avenue subway station, of heart failure. Under Dr. Shanklin's administration, Wesleyan University doubled in number of students, trebled in income...
...station is located across the river, southwest of the "loop" or business district. Its main waiting room contains 26,500 sq. ft.; other waiting rooms account for 22,000 sq. ft. more. The building proper is eight stories in height; in addition to the general offices of the Pennsylvania and the Milwaukee, the structure will house a dining room, lunch counter, cafeteria, tea room, barber shop, beauty parlor, fruit stand, tobacco shop, book store-and last but not least, a two-cell jail, a chapel and a hospital...
...train shed is to the east of the station; this structure will have a 15-acre roof of glass and 84,000 sq. ft. of baggage room in the basement. It will accommodate 14 tracks on the south and 10 on the north...
Included in the new Union Station development are two new bridges over the river, concrete viaducts on both sides of the station, a new mail terminal, 239,000 sq. ft. of new streets, and the relocation of several public utilities...