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This is the first year that the trophy has been awarded, the contest having been established earlier in the year by Grover Loening, famous builder of amphibians. Second prize of $500 went to the University of Detroit Aeronautical Society, third prize of $300 to the Yale Aeronautical Society, and fourth place money of $200 was captured by the New York University Flying Club. There were seven entries in all in the contest, Michigan, Ohio State, and Dartmouth being the other competitors...
...character of the thoughtful fire-builder would seem to suggest a drama flickering with irony, but Playwright Mann Page has apparently overlooked this possibility, has devoted himself to the vapid story of the Elliotts. Inasmuch as they are wholly theatrical characters, limned without reality or wit, little can be said for the entertainment...
...Pullman, is in two sections of seven cars, each named after a famed oldtime clipper ship. To suggest the sea, car interiors are blue-green. Windows open like windows in limousines, are said by the company not to stick. One Grace Harriet McKay, great-granddaughter of Clipper Ship Builder Donald McKay, christened the train in Manhattan's Grand Central Station. A band of Red Caps played...
...French engineer, one J. A. Thome de Gamond, exhibited the first practical drawings for a Channel Tunnel. In 1875 tne Gunnel Tunnel Co. (still in existence) was organized. Queen Victoria spurred the idea by announcing: "All the women of England will bless the builder of the tunnel for saving them from seasickness," Preliminary borings were actually started. From the chalk cliffs of Dover and from the French shore near Sangatte, mile-long galleries were driven out under the Channel floor. Proving the theory of Engineer de Gamond that the Dover chalk beds run out under the Channel, these abandoned galleries...
...BUSINESS BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN WANAMAKER, FOUNDER AND BUILDER- Joseph H. Appel-Macmillan...