Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, told the Boy Scouts of America that they could use 90,000 acres of his land near Red Bank, N. J., for a summer camp...
Conde Nast, publisher of Vanity Fair, Vogue, etc., purchased the controlling interest in the Grand Central Palace and a neighboring office building in Manhattan. The deal involved $15,000,000. He said he would use the upper floors of the Grand Central Palace for permanent industrial exhibits and continue the policy of leasing the three lower floors for annual automobile, boat, flower shows...
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, soprano, gave her estate at Grossmont, Calif., valued at $230,000, to the disabled American Veterans of the World War. They will use it as a rest home. Said she at a dinner of disabled veterans in Minneapolis: "I make this gift . . . because you called me 'Mother'. . . . Six years ago in Minneapolis you disabled men drank a silent toast to the two sons I lost in the War-one on the American side and the other on the German. May you all go to California and rest in the most glorious spot I know...
Over the Ohio River at Madison, Ind., there is use for a bridge; over the Missouri at Hermann, Mo. and Courtney, Mo. are similar uses; and at all three places public authorities, too poor to build bridges at common expense, recently authorized private individuals to build toll bridges...
...from stucco and brick, invited the public to invent a rallying-cry. Last fortnight first prize ($5,000) went to one James E. Noble Jr. of Sanitorium, Miss., for his lofty "Certified by Centuries of Service." Tersely quieting the fears of those who worry about deforestation, the slogan, "Wood, Use It-Nature Renews It," won second prize ($2,000) for Mrs. Dora Davis Farrington of Interlaken, N. J. Less clever, by one word, a Mrs. Maud Burt of Marshalltown, Iowa, thought of "Use It-Nature Renews It," got third prize...