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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 a new type of ventilation was the 8,463-ft. commuter-used Holland...
...Therefore is it that I venture to offer to the Italian people all that remains to me and all that from this date I may acquire to increase my inheritance. I, who once sang idly of ancient palaces and sumptuous villas; I have come to close my life in science in this peasant's house, not so much to humble myself as to test my own powers of creation and transfiguration...
...Natural History (Manhattan) found the shattered fragments of a fossil reptile in Arizona. He carefully preserved each piece. But when he tried to put his little 3-ft. reptile together, he found many of the fragments missing. He recognized the fossil as the remains of an ancestor of the ancient dinosaur. This year he went to Arizona again, sifted 15 tons of dirt through fly screens. Fortnight ago he returned to Manhattan with a cigar box half-full of bits to complete his paleontologic jigsaw puzzle. The small reptile which crawled about the earth millions of years...
...Russia. Archeologists have long known the ruins of New Chersonese, an old Greek settlement, near the modern Crimean city of Sevastopol. But they had never found the more ancient site of Old Chersonese which Strabo, famed Greek geographer, described. Two years ago Professor Markevitch, Crimean archeologist, told the Moscow Archeological Society to stop scratching in the earth, to look under the sea for Old Chersonese. Fishermen had told him of a wonderful submarine city off the coast of Sevastopol. Russian scientists set to work soon afterward with divers and giant searchlights, found Old Chersonese 210 ft. offshore. The city stretches...
...immediate future, another 50% later. It was likewise understood that popular Joseph A. Sisto expected eventually to resume his business. Prince & Whitely, however, will be barred from joining the Exchange again, unless an entirely new set of partners decide there is still good-will left in the ancient and long honorable name of Prince & Whitely...