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...Port Authority loan followed closely on the heels of another grant to New York City for the construction of a three-pronged bridge connecting Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens over Hell Gate. The Public Works Administration was ready to give the city $7,200,000 outright for this triborough span, lend it $37,000,000 more. The Triborough Bridge Authority had yet to sign its Federal loan agreement, arrange for bids on the contract. Estimated employment...
Last July a 50-year-old plant belonging to Charles Curie of Cornwall, N. Y. began pushing a stalk bud up through its central core. At once he had the plant dug out of his greenhouse and trucked to the Bronx Park Botanical Gardens where experts could replant it in the open and study its blossoming under natural conditions. Last month the stalk began to grow at the rate of an inch an hour, grew 15 feet high, put out 600 grey-green buds. For four successive weeks experts announced the century plant was about to bloom...
...baby yak born in the Bronx Zoo was christened "General Hughjo" in honor of NRA's General Hugh Samuel Johnson On his 85th birthday, August Heckscher, Manhattan capitalist, charitarian, motored out to the Peekskill camp where he entertains 300 poor children every summer. There he listened to a little girl's speech of congratulations, read a telegram from his friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt, drank three glasses of stout. News photographers had his enormous birthday cake brought outdoors, snapped him plunging a knife into it. Wearied by the noise and excitement, Charitarian Heckscher wandered down to the swimming pool...
...Stephens brothers learned to sail off Barnstable, Cape Cod. They got their father, who owns a coal business in The Bronx, so interested in the sport that he became a vice-commodore of the Larchmont Yacht Club. Olin left M. I. T. after one year to help start, with a friend not much older than himself, the firm of Sparkman & Stephens, naval architects. Roderick got a job in a shipyard. Since Olin had the Dorade built from his own specifications in 1930, both of them have spent almost as much time on the water as at work. Consequently the Dorade...
...indictment of Joseph Weiner, New York City poultry racketeer, for conspiracy to coerce, after his hoodlums wrecked a poultry market in The Bronx (TIME, May 8): sentence of six months to three years in Sing Sing...