Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Central...
...gold spike was Cape Horn. Freighters could not compete with freight trains as long as freighters had to wallow around the Horn. But the opening of the Panama Canal furnished a short water route from U. S. coast-to-coast. Fast new freighters go from San Diego to New York in 13 days; freight cars take about 14 days from seaboard to seaboard. In 1928, 9,868,000 tons of coast-to-coast freight went through the Canal...
Last week Manhattan realtors tried to unfreeze their assets. They announced the formation of the New York Real Estate Securities Exchange. Such an exchange has been talked of for years, but though often discussed was always postponed.* This year, however, the real estate business has not been good. Money has been tight, credit high, realtors embarrassed. So the exchange idea was revived and on Oct. 1, at No. 12 East 41st St., the first real estate exchange in the world will open under the presidency of Cyrus C. Miller, Manhattan lawyer and member of the New York Real Estate Board...
...Russian is Joseph P. Day, famed auctioneer, present friend of the Manhattan Democratic organization. It was Mr. Day who bought the Tammany Hall property on 14th Street, who then sold it to the New York Edison Co., and who then turned the profits of the deal over to the new Tammany Hall as a graceful political gesture...
...gather material on the sayings and actions of assembled geniuses. As each wore a large identification tag bearing the name of his state, they soon found this an easier means of appellation than remembering proper names. "Oregon" compared notes with "Maryland"; "New Jersey" told "Kansas" about Manhattan, for "New York" himself was from Utica, had never seen New York City. Soon they decided to form a club, "The Edison 49ers," to meet every ten years...