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Engineers examined with interest the world's fifth great vehicular tunnel built since automobile exhaust gases presented ventilation problems. The other four: Holland Tunnel, joining Manhattan and Jersey City; Oakland Tube, connecting Oakland and Alameda, Calif.; Mersey River Tunnel, between Liverpool and Birkenhead, England; the Liberty Tubes, 5,800 ft. long, mountain tunnels, sole route from the South to Pittsburgh. Ancient sub-river vehicular tunnels without protection from motorgas exist at Glasgow and under the Elbe at Hamburg. Two old tunnels under the Thames at London have been equipped with suction-&-exhaust fans. First tunnel to require...
...Francisco to Goat Island (Naval training station), thence to Emeryville on the Oakland side. To pacify the Navy it was agreed that battleships should be able to pass underneath. Chief points conceded in the compromise were: 1) by San Francisco, desire to have the bridge connect with Alameda; 2) by the Navy Department, fear that a possible enemy air force might bomb the bridge, bottle up a U. S. fleet in the Bay. Last week the War Department approved plans for another, 8,500 ft. bridge, with the longest single span in the world, to cross the famed Golden Gate...
Died. Philip Shepheard Teller, 69, San Francisco merchant, successor to Meyer Lissner (died fortnight ago, TIME, Aug. 11) on the U. S. Shipping Board (1926-29), onetime chairman of California's Republican State Central Committee; after long illness, at Alameda. Calif...
Already entrenched on the Pacific Coast through Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.'s plants in San Francisco, Alameda and Los Angeles, the purchase will bring Bethlehem into closer competition with its five-times greater rival, U. S. Steel. Open to the competitors lie not only the rich Pacific Coast but the Far East...
With due solemnity Peru's highest notables, scholars, soldiers, officials and athletes marched into Lima's great Alameda Descalzos last fortnight to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Character Day. to receive medals and decorations "for distinguished character." As national holidays go, Character Day is unique. The hero it celebrates is still alive, still a hero...