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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian freighter Leonardo da Vinci with a cargo of Renaissance paintings was being tossed in a heavy storm last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 23), the steamship Manuka, carrying a $125,000 traveling exhibition of modern British art to New Zealand, crashed in the fog on the rocks off South Island, near Australia, and broke up soon after the crew and passengers were removed. Among the shipwrecked paintings were two oils by Sir William Orpen, several water colors by Laura Knight, a collection of modern etchings by Frank Brangwyn and C. R. W. Nevinson...
Reason for the change: in its new location the Ambrose's 5,000-candlepower light will be a more accurate beacon for ships entering narrow Ambrose Channel from the deep Atlantic 20 miles east of Staten Island...
...York it was to be a subsidiary of his Robert Bosch Aktiengesellschaft. But in 1917 the U. S. company was seized as alien property, sold, reorganized as American Bosch Magneto Co. In 1921 Herr Bosch again invaded U. S. markets, forming Robert Bosch Magneto Co., Inc., of Long Island City. Quickly American Bosch Co. brought suit, charged they alone had right to the Bosch name, won a verdict that prevented Inventor Bosch from using his name on products marketed...
Engaged. William H. Vanderbilt of Newport, Rhode Island State Senator, nephew of Capitalist Cornelius Vanderbilt III; and Miss Anne Gordon Colby, Foxcroft graduate, daughter of Everett Colby, onetime New Jersey State Senator; at Llewellyn Park...
...California's sunny foggy strand to Manhattan's rocky banks went news last week of great import for future air lanes. In California, the West Coast Airship Board, headed by Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chose a 1700-acre tract at Sunnyvale, 50 air miles from Mare Island Navy Yard (at San Francisco). This tract was the Board's first choice of an anchorage. Second was some 2,000 acres, near San Diego, a; Camp Kearney recommended for a mooring mast...