Word: staten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reason for the change: in its new location the Ambrose's 5,000-candlepower light will be a more accurate beacon for ships entering narrow Ambrose Channel from the deep Atlantic 20 miles east of Staten Island...
...sons and daughters of Liechtenstein number only a little over 11,000. Correspondents estimated last week that at least 6,000 turned out to shout "Hail to our new mother!" Peasants had come trudging in to Vaduz from the remotest parts of a country slightly larger than Staten Island. They and the lowlier towns folk evidently thought that free beer and a barbecue at the castle made up for any little irregularities. Besides only sternest aristocrats would deny that in the case of Liechtenstein's ruler and Princess Elsa there are peculiarly extenuating circumstances...
...ferries which daily swish and creak from Manhattan to Staten Island a busy grimy tribe ply their trade. Their cry is "Shine? Shine?"; their trade is polishing shoes for a dime and, by unwritten law, a nickel...
Mausoleums. The traditional "bad man," asked the conventional question of where he buries his dead, may soon reply, "At Tompkinsville, Staten Island, in the 6,000 mausoleums of Mausoleum Corp. of America." On the site is room for 4,000 additional crypts. Mausoleum Corp. stock is being marketed at $106 a unit (4 Class A, 1 Class B share), is held chiefly by organizers...
Wall Street's Prall. Meanwhile the Representative in whose district Wall Street itself is located said nothing at all. It is from the nonfinancial stretches of Staten Island that this Representative comes. He is Anning S. Prall, a perky, bright-eyed, chest-forward Tammany Democrat. The Manhattan financial section chances to be in Mr. Prall's Eleventh District, but skyscrapers do not vote and Mr. Prall does not "represent" Wall Street any more than he represents the Statue of Liberty which is also within his constituency...