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August 3, 1929

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Headlines from August 3, 1929

General Motors Reported Buyer of 740 Acres At Teterboro to Develop a Great Air Centre

By Special to The New York Times

Reptd to have bought land at Teterboro, N J, to develop airport

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LAGUARDIA BEGINS HIS FIGHT; TAKES THE STUMP MONDAY; HYLAN ALLIANCE LIKELY; WILL SPEED FILLING TICKET Republican Designee to Meet County Chiefs Early Next Week. ACTS ON QUEENS BREACH Causes Deferring of Meeting Which Was Expected to Turn Down Harvey. CONFIDENT OF AMPLE FUND Will Be on Offensive "Till I Get Into City Hail," He Says-- Graft to Be Chief Issue. Unmoved by Press Comment. Espects Ample Funds. Graft to Be Chief Issue. Manhattan Leaders Pleased.

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F H La Guardia causes postponement of Repub County Com meeting which was scheduled to turn down Borough Pres Harvey for renomination

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RUSSIA AND CHINA HALT NEGOTIATIONS; SOVIET SETS TERMS; Moscow Admits Deadlook, Holdding Nanking's Stand is "Too Imperialistic."SOVIET FIRM ON CONDITIONSDemands New Status for Railway, Freeing of Workers, Rightto Name Manager.WANG FOR A FREE PARLEY He Says Formal Conference Must Be Unconditional--Moscow AwaitsBetter Offer. Polite Hint to Chinese. RUSSIA AND CHINA HALT NEGOTIATIONS New Status of Line Urged. Wang Against Conditions.

By Walter Duranty. Wireless To the New York Times

Negotiations between Russia and China deadlocked; Soviet firm on its specified conditions; Russian attacks on Chinese river vessels reptd

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B. & O. SEEKS TO BUY 253-MILE RAILROAD; Offers Buffalo & Susquehanna $6,300,000 in Move for $2,000,000,000 Merger. I.C.C. APPROVAL SOUGHT Proposal Viewed in Wall Street as Forestalling Acquisition by Pennroad Corporation. An Iron and Steel Carrier. View as Forestalling Rivals. B.&O. SEEKS TO BUY 253-MILE RAILROAD

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B & O seeks I C C approval of plan to buy Buffalo & Susquehanna; Wall St views proposal as plan to forestall Pennroad acquisition

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ZEPPELIN PASSES AZORES SPEEDING IN FINE WEATHER; LIKELY TO ARRIVE SUNDAY; RADIOS 'GOING STRONG' Washington Gets Direct Message From South of Pico Island. BAG OF MAIL IS DROPPED But Residents at Horta Wait in Vain All Day and Far Into Night to See Craft. REPORTS ALONG COURSE Dr. Eckener Says All on Board Are Well--Gorilia Passenger Enjoys Companions. Cruise Program Completed. Wireless Reports Progress. ZEPPELIN SPEEDS UP; MAY ARRIVE SUNDAY Washington Hears From Airship. Azores Watchers Disappointed. Mail Dropped at Azores. Gorilla Enjoys Her Trip. Passes Gibraltar in the Dark.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Map of route; mail dropped at Azores; stowaway washes dishes; mail rates; N Y Times receives airship radio message

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1929Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (born 1851)^[†]

Emile Berliner was a German-American inventor and businessman who invented the lateral-cut flat disc record, also known as a "gramophone record," used with a gramophone. He founded the United States Gramophone Company in 1894; The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1898; Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898; and Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899. Berliner also invented what was probably the first radial aircraft engine (1908), a helicopter (1919), and acoustical tiles (1920s).

1929Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (born 1857)^[†]

Thorstein Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism.

Headlines from August 3, 1929

General Motors Reported Buyer of 740 Acres At Teterboro to Develop a Great Air Centre

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