John McCoy, who never had been active in the business, decides to remain with Atwater Kent and sells his partnership share to Jack Henkels. The company remains "Henkels & McCoy." Henkels & McCoy is awarded a contract for grading and planting at the first world's fair to be held in New York City, at the Grand Central Palace at 43rd and Lexington Avenue. Known as the French Exposition, the fair will be open to the public from April 22 until May 3 and will highlight the art, commerce and industry of France and its colonies.

(Above) An early Henkels & McCoy crew in an undated photograph.

January 21 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin first head of the Soviet Union dies, and will be succeeded by Josef Stalin following a power struggle with other leading communists. February 3 Former President Woodrow Wilson dies. February 9 Shandaken Aqueduct is opened to supply New York City with fresh upstate water. The Shandaken Tunnel is the longest tunnel in the world (18 miles) when completed and connects the Schoharie Reservoir to the Esopus Creek and the Ashokan Reservoir. The Catskill Water System is an engineering marvel that provides 40% of New York City's drinking water. The water flows 100 miles from the Catskills to New York City by gravity - through an aqueduct that cross through mountains and deep under the Hudson River. February 12 King Tutankhamen's tomb is located and entered, in Luxor Egypt. also: George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York City. February 14 Thomas Watson founds International Business Machine corporation. July 1 The US Post Office Department opens regular day-and-night air-mail service between New York and San Francisco November 4 Miriam "Ma" Ferguson in Texas, and Nellie Ross in Wyoming are elected Governors. They are the first female Chief Executives in US history. Also in 1924: Walt Disney creates his first cartoon, "Alice's Wonderland." Clarence Birdseye introduces frosted (frozen) foods in US. With an investment of $7 for an electric fan, buckets of brine, and cakes of ice, Clarence Birdseye invented and later perfected a system of packing fresh food into waxed cardboard boxes and flash-freezing under high pressure. The Goldman-Sachs Trading Corporation and the Postum Co.(later the General Foods Corporation) bought Clarence Birdseye’s patents and trademarks in 1929 for$22 million. The first quick-frozen vegetables, fruits, seafoods, and meat were sold to the public for the first time in 1930 in Springfield, Massachusetts, under the tradename Birds Eye Frosted Foods. The Statue of Liberty becomes a national monument. First Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York City. Notre Dame tops the NCAA football season with a 10-0-0 record. Ottoman Empire ends with dissolution of the caliphate by Turkish president Mustafa Kemal, founder of modern Turkey.