Word: tonawanda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sometimes regarded himself as two persons ... At night, frequently, he imagined there was an intruder creeping about the room ..." Down to his last dollar, he went to the East River to drown himself. A drunken Scotsman danced around him singing. A canal boatman offered him a ride to Tonawanda. He gave up suicide, set out the next day to pawn his watch. On the way he met brother Paul, who tearfully pressed a roll of bills into his hand and sent him to a sanatorium for rest...
...oldtime boatbuilders with a completely new postwar line was the Richardson Boat Co., Inc. of Tonawanda, N.Y. Instead of the traditional frame-and-plank construction, Richardson was showing 25-ft. cabin cruisers of molded mahogany plywood (price: $4,500 & up). Less conventional and less expensive (under $4,000) was the 26-ft. Steelcraft, an all-steel, welded hull cabin cruiser made by West Haven, Conn.'s Churchward...
...little before 11 o'clock in the still hot morning, an elderly Western Union messenger climbed the steps to the red-bricked sun porch of a bungalow in Tonawanda, N.Y., and pressed the bell. Mrs. Michael C. Niland was busy with the housework when she heard...
...like story came from the town of Tonawanda, N.Y., where the U.S. Government has been backing and filling over a 1,200-house project (for workers at Curtiss-Wright and Buffalo Arms) for more than a year. Main stumbling block was that water, sewage and incinerator facilities were scarcely adequate to serve Tonawanda even before it was glutted with war workers, and the town was willing and able to pay only about one-quarter of the $488,000 estimated cost of enlarging them. Town Supervisor Roy R. Brockett beat his brains out on this problem, with "more than 35 persons...
Parker. In North Tonawanda, N.Y., Conductor Maurice J. Mahoney was fined $10 for parking overtime. He left a freight train on a crossing for half an hour...