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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...less impressive, but at present more nebulous, was a project announced last week by a New York Board of Trade committee chairmanned by William T. Donnelly, consulting engineer. Chairman Donnelly's proposal not only envisions Manhattan as the gateway to the nation, but, richer in concept than previous plans, seeks to symbolize the U. S. as a great interfusion of races, nations, peoples, whose civilization has been and is based on commerce. His plan proposes as an appropriate* national monument a great vaulted hall, largest in the world, with an esplanade on the Battery water's edge...
...Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddie, Jr., Daughter Mary of the late Tobacco Tycoon Benjamin Newton Duke, set a record: $77,000 duty on personal foreign purchases (jewelry, clothing, souvenirs), largest individual duty ever paid in U. S. history. (Previous record...
...Previous subjects: "Christianity and the Economic Order" (1922), "The Preacher and the Economic Order...
Importers of motor cars, who had received absolutely no previous warning, were thunderstruck to read that the Dictator had jumped the Italian duty on their stock in trade more than...
...TIME, July 7). Then a clogged screen cut their engine's oil supply. Kenneth tried to remove it for cleaning but the oil spurted out. They had to land- with a new endurance record of 553 hr. 41 min. 30 sec., more than 133 hr. better than the previous mark. Followed the frenzied aftermath, no less dizzying to the humble family from Sparta, Ill. than had been the three-week ordeal. With their brothers Walter and Albert of the refueling plane, and Sister Irene who had cooked for them, and their 62-year-old mother, Mrs. Ida Hunter...