Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reason for the Ambrose's name and existence: a fighting Irish wharf-&-dry-dock man of Manhattan named John Wolfe Ambrose harangued for 18 years to get Congress to dredge the approach to New York Harbor...
Recently Sculptor de Creeft, now middle-aged though vigorous, arrived in the U. S. He brought with him a large collection of his sculptures which were last week exhibited in Manhattan. The picador, the ostrich, La Femme-Chatte, were absent; Sculptor de Creeft no longer seeks to shock. Instead, he exhibited his taille directe with rosy granite, and black onyx shaped for shape rather than excitement -gigantic heads, writhing nudes, an orchid of beaten lead. He wants to be respectable. He has married his onetime pupil, Alice Carr of Seattle. He wants commissions, he hopes to sell, make money...
...birds and animals it asks the Bureau of Biological Survey* to report. Chief of the Bureau is tall, spare Paul G. Redington, who spends his time traveling through the wild gamelands of the U. S. and Alaska. Last week at the 16th annual American Game Conference in Manhattan, Chief Redington told some 200 game commissioners and sportsmen about an experiment the Bureau had made to determine how far migratory wild birds fly each season. First, 100,000 birds were captured and numerically leg-banded. During the subsequent seasons 15,000 of these were recaptured or shot, their numbers sent...
...York area who had never had a ride in an airplane. At Valley Stream, L. I., hummed expectantly the Company's Ford trimotor. In squads it engulfed intrepid New York businessmen -rubbermen, pianomen, bankers, food-men, hatters, bakers, milkmen, silkmen- took them up, showed them over Manhattan, brought them down, five tons landing softly...
Glider Prize. The first U. S. person to glide ten hours in a motorless plane will get a $2,000 prize. Detroit's Edward Steptoe Evans, founder-president of the National Glider Association,* made the offer at the association's dinner in Manhattan last week. The association has a score of affiliated clubs with about 600 members. William Patterson MacCracken, resigned assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, spoke of gliding as a cheapening, accelerating factor in the training of commercial pilots...