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Astor and Radio
* Listen to the Old Time Radio adaption of The Maltese Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Sydney Greenstreet.
On March 2, 1942, Brent and Astor reprised their roles for a Lux Radio Theatre broadcast, with Loretta Young assuming the Davis role.

Astor and Corporation
Times Newspapers was formed in 1967 when The Thomson Corporation purchased The Times from the Astor family and merged it with The Sunday Times, which it had owned since 1959.
On loan to Fox Film Corporation, Astor starred in Dressed To Kill ( 1928 ), which received good reviews.
The group overseeing and financing the work included the New York Landmarks Conservancy, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, Vincent Astor Foundation, Manhattan Community Board 10, Abyssian Development Corporation, the Commonwealth Fund, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and several local banks.
The second Astor, still under construction at the time, was sold to Marlan Corporation in January 1986.

Astor and Australian
Astor also made a disastrous speech stating that alcohol use was the reason England's national cricket team was defeated by the Australian national cricket team.

Astor and consumer
In 1960 Melbourne consumer electronics company Astor Electronics created its own record division, Astor Records, which established the Astor label and also became a leading distributor.

Astor and from
It was a quarter of seven when the crowd washed me up among the other gallants who had established the Astor steps as the beach-head from which to launch their night of merrymaking.
Mary Astor kept her distance from the Hawks family after Kenneth's death.
John Jacob Astor's ancestors were Waldensian refugees from Savoy, and Astor remained a member of the Reformed church throughout his life.
In 1800, following the example of the Empress of China, the first American trading vessel to China, Astor traded furs, teas and sandalwood with Canton in China, and greatly benefited from it.
In 1804, Astor purchased from Aaron Burr what remained of a 99-year lease on property in Manhattan.
Astor withdrew from the American Fur Company, as well as all his other ventures, and used the money to buy and develop large tracts of Manhattan real estate.
After retiring from his business, Astor spent the rest of his life as a patron of culture.
This support came from the British press in the form of Viscount Astor, Lord Beaverbrook and former WW1 Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who were trenchant critics of the autocratic style of Winston Churchill and favoured replacing Winston with Menzies.
Huston and Ruppert purchased the lumberyard from William Waldorf Astor for $ 600, 000, equal to $ today.
By 1896, with financing from moguls like J. P. Morgan, John Jacob Astor IV, and the Vanderbilts, they had constructed giant underground conduits leading to turbines generating upwards of, and were sending power as far as Buffalo, away.
By far the most famously reported quotes are taken from alleged exchanges between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill but, like the statements above, these are not well documented and may be misattributed.
" Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball by saying, " Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister?
* 25px SR 40, a west-to-east road in central Volusia County enters the county from the Astor Bridge over the St. Johns River and heads east towards Ormond Beach.
State Road 40 bisects the Ocala National Forest, approaching Astor from the west and continuing east over the Astor Bridge across the St. Johns River to Volusia, in Volusia County.
In 1874, William Backhouse Astor, Jr. from New York City's wealthy Astor family purchased over of land, upon which he began to establish a town he called Manhattan.
Today the community of Astor is largely reliant upon tourism, and is a popular spot for winter visitors from the north and fishing, hunting, and boating enthusiasts.
The railroad arrived in 1880, the first train coming from Astor to Fort Mason, where passengers and freight made lake steamer connections to Leesburg, Helena, Yalaha, Bloomfield, Lane Park and Tavares.
In the early 19th century, John Jacob Astor purchased wampum from the Campbells to trade with the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest whose beaver pelts he turned into men's hats.
Seventy acres of the Leake, later Norton property, extending north from 42nd to 46th Street and from Broadway to the river, had been purchased before 1807 by John Jacob Astor and William Cutting, who held it before dividing it into building lots as the district became more suburban.
Madeleine Carroll died on 2 October 1987 from pancreatic cancer in Marbella, Spain aged 81, exactly one week after her The Prisoner of Zenda co-star Mary Astor died.
Astor installed a large sixteenth-century fireplace, bought from a Burgundian chateaux which was being pulled down.

Astor and 1926
The first Astor Bridge was built in 1926 ; by 1928, Astor's hotel had burned down and the railroad was abandoned, leaving Astor without telephone or telegraph service for the next few decades.
After the Gaiety burnt down around 1926, other cinemas followed, such as the Metro on Middle Street in Georgetown, which became the Empire ; the London on Camp Street, which became the Plaza ; and the Astor on Church and Waterloo Streets, which opened around 1940.
## Caroline Schermerhorn Astor ( 1861 – 1948 ), married 1884 Marshall Orme Wilson ( 1861 – 1926 ) ( 2 sons )
#### Winthrop Astor Chanler ( 1863 – 1926 )
* 1926: Mary Astor, Mary Brian, Joyce Compton, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Marceline Day, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor, Sally Long, Edna Marion, Sally O ' Neil, Vera Reynolds, Fay Wray
The tower was built in 1926 with financing by the Great Northern Railway and Vincent Astor, the great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, in commemoration of the city's role in the family's business history.
Taylor is possibly best recalled for her roles in the 1922 drama Monte Cristo, opposite John Gilbert ; the enormously successful 1923 Cecil B. DeMille directed The Ten Commandments as Miriam, the sister of Moses ; as Lucrezia Borgia in the 1926 Warner Bros .' first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack Don Juan, with John Barrymore, Mary Astor and Warner Oland ; 1927's New York, featuring Ricardo Cortez and Lois Wilson ; 1931's Street Scene with Sylvia Sidney ; the Academy Award-winning Cimarron ; and the Clara Bow talkie Call Her Savage in 1932.

Astor and which
According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.
His older brother Henry Astor preceded him to New York, establishing a butcher shop with which John Jacob Astor was initially involved.
Astor took advantage of the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States in 1794, which opened new markets in Canada and the Great Lakes region.
His conditions were that the tenant could do whatever they wish with the lots for twenty-one years, after which they must renew the lease or Astor would take back the lot.
In the 1830s, John Jacob Astor foresaw that the next big boom would be the build-up of New York, which would soon emerge as one of the world ’ s greatest cities.
Examples include an instance in which Churchill is supposed to have told Lady Astor that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which she retorted, " You ’ re not handsome enough to have such fears.
" Possibly the two most famous of all such anecdotes report that Lady Astor said to Churchill, " If you were my husband, I'd poison your tea ," to which he responded, " Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it!
The film was a considerable success and brought renewed attention to its veteran cast, which also included Joseph Cotten, Mary Astor and Agnes Moorehead.
Astor is primarily accessible by land via Florida State Road 40, which is the main highway through the community.
New settlers arrived by steamboat to the town which Astor had endowed with a church, schoolhouse, botanical garden, and free cemetery.
William Astor also built a hotel, saw mill, and eventually a railroad, the St. John's and Lake Eustis Railway, which departed town headed inland towards the communities of Eustis and Leesburg.
The city was named for the nearby John Day River, which had been named for a Virginian member of the 1811 Astor Expedition, John Day.
Harry M. Miller produced the original Sydney production of Rocky Horror, which opened on 15 April 1974, running for almost two years in the New Arts Cinema ( formerly The Astor, later The Valhalla and now an office building ) in Glebe.
Fascinated by the prospects offered by the Pacific coast, Henry passed on his ideas, which he called " my favorite plan ," to New York merchant John Jacob Astor.
Alongside Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, Mary Astor and Joseph Cotten, she starred in Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte ( 1964 ) as the maid, Velma, a role for which she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award.
In 1937 News-Week merged with the weekly journal Today, which had been founded in 1932 by future New York Governor and diplomat W. Averell Harriman, and Vincent Astor of the prominent Astor family.
The expedition became famous in its day as the company's barges heading up the Missouri overtook the rival Astor Expedition, led by William Price Hunt for the American Fur Company, which had set out three weeks earlier.

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