Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down by a night-flying mail plane. Day broke. Two of the balloons descended, discovered they had been blown in circles all night, were only 27 and 32 miles from Pittsburgh. One other balloon came down in Pennsylvania. Seven others descended across the broad expanse of upper New York. After 36 hours, all but two had been heard from: Navy No. 1, piloted by Lieut. Thomas G. W. Settle and Ensign Wilfred Bushnell; and Detroit Times, piloted by Arthur G. Schlosser and E. J. Hill. Far beyond the marks of any of the others, Navy 1 came to earth, nearly...
...Herald and Traveler, in 1928 one-sixth. The outlook for 1929 was dubious. By purchasing stock in the two newspapers. International got their whole newsprint order. Mr. Graustein next argued that vertical combinations between newspapers and newsprintmakers were natural and wise. He cited the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times in the U. S., the Rothermere and the Berry papers in England, all of which own paper mills. To be sure, in these cases it is the press that owns the paper company. However, Mr. Graustein was able to cite the case of William Harrison, British paper maker...
...that Congress, if it will, can find a way to stop these great interstate monopolies from using their huge financial resources, contributed by the people, to destroy the free press by means that range from secret bribery of newspaper employes to outright purchase of newspapers themselves." Said the New York Times: "The whole foundation of honest journalism is laid on the principle that newspaper ownership should have no interest save in publishing facts and making fair editorial comment on them. Ownership that has a financial interest in the public domain, over which there is steady controversy between private operation...
...self-winding wrist watch a "perpetual motion" watch that winds itself, somewhat on the principle of the pedometer, is to be given free to a student of the University next month, according to an announcement by the Perpetual Self-Winding Watch Co., New York City, manufacturers of this startling new invention...
...opening a contest open to students of the University to write a suitable ten word or less advertising headline featuring the watch. One of the watches will be awarded as a prize. Headlines should be mailed to the office of the company at 10 W. 47th St., New York City...