Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bored with the American Sketch and had decided to go home and pick up more chit-chat to put into more books for more money. Doubleday, Doran & Co. let him go, said nothing, and last week let the American Sketch, a failure, be merged quietly with the New York Tatler Social Digest, a smartchart owned by Carlton Publishing Co. The new monthly will be called The Tatler and American Sketch, devoted chiefly to society, sport, Long Island realty...
...tell an inquisitive public, New York's American Institute last week conducted another of its popular lectures on scientific topics. Speaker was Edmund Newton Harvey, professor of physiology at Princeton and authority on chemiluminescence for the National Research Council.* After explaining that luminescence in living matter is not phosphorescence and has nothing to do with phosphorus, he had a simple story to tell...
...magazine pages but in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, in Chicago's Art Institute and in many another museum appears the most representative work of Mr. Kent who neither considers himself nor is generally considered merely a commercial artist. Mr. Kent lives at Ausable Forks, in Northeastern New York. * For example the desire of Harrods, London department store, to secure literary promotion from Writers Bennett, Shaw, Wells (TIME, March...
...there is to be, the telegraph companies now appear to have the whip hand. R.C.A. radio circuits terminate at New York on the East Coast and San Francisco on the West Coast. Blank of its stations is the whole interior. Not only can it transmit no domestic messages, but all messages from the interior for radio transmission abroad must be relayed to the coast over Western Union wires. Tentative, temporary are R.C.A.'s "agree ments" with these companies. Therefore, to escape this bondage, R.C.A. Communications has applied to the Federal Radio Commission for 67 wave lengths to be used...
...efforts that the Pennsylvania secured access to Manhattan. He planned a bridge across the Hudson from Jersey City to Manhattan. When other roads refused to cooperate, he went under instead of over the water and built the Hudson River tubes. Later he made an arrangement with the New York, New Haven & Hartford and built the Hell Gate Bridge, and still later got control of the Long Island Railroad and connected it to the Penn with tunnels under the East River...