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Long a sore point with New Yorkers has been Newark's virtual monopoly as the terminal of the Metropolitan district's passenger, mail & commercial air traffic. No New Yorker has had so long or so sharp a knife out for Newark as New York's flying...
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Relentlessly backing any rival to Newark as long as it was situated in New York State he battled valiantly to have Brooklyn's remote Floyd Bennett Field made the city's official air terminal, even sponsored in 1933 a scheme for a metropolitan airport on Governor's Island, which would have nestled under the city's towering skyline and been suicidal to passengers and pilots. A year later he leased the land for what was to become a more practical project: to enlarge North Beach Airport on Flushing Bay, Queens...
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This put a bee in the cap of an Annapolis midshipman named Joseph SpielVogel. He left Annapolis and one day, while studying engineering in Newark, N. J., he found himself fingering some crepe paper in a 5? & 10? store. The result was the Vogel-type aligning paper which he put on the market in 1934. It is a finely corrugated paper, ruled so that it can be torn in narrow horizontal strips and cemented to a backing sheet. The typist writes on the corrugated side and, when finished, takes a pair of tweezers, lifts the strips loose, stretches them...
...story of how the large picture reached that place is curious. When our old home in Newark, Ohio, was sold in 1893 the crated picture was sent to a brother in Colorado. His residence changed to California and in a short time he went to Brazil on an engineering project. The crate with the picture was in a warehouse during the earthquake and fire and later was taken down to the canyon on the small steamer which carried supplies to the lime company's colony and on its return carried the barrels of lime loaded from the wire tram...