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...like a big boiler, which did not weigh heavily on the ground but pressed against it, sending aloft clouds of fleecy steam. Beneath it ran rivulets of slush. Behind it lay a street cleared of its matted snow. It was a snow melter, invented by John B. Lodge of Beacon, N. Y. The steam drum could be heated to 2,000 Fahrenheit by crude oil under compression burned within...
...soon be undertaken to provide for he large surplus of population. Then, too, America has embodied the brilliant cultural ideals of the Golden Age of Greece in this new building on Grecian soil. The modern world has combinea its contribution of efficiency with ancient architectural greatness to provide a beacon for a rejuvenated Greece...
Whether the student body will be deprived of this "diversion" will depend on the effectiveness of the long-advocated flashing beacon...
...either case, the Traffic Department is at fault. It would be very easy to put at least a Flashing Beacon at this corner such as they have at other corners that have merited the attention of the Department perhaps less than this one. Something could be done about this matter very cheaply...
...land on Jamaica Bay, the erection of buildings with 5,000,000 square feet of floor space for exhibits by the U. S. and 46 foreign governments, a stadium to hold 200,000 people, parking space for 100,000 automobiles, the highest tower in the world topped by a beacon that could be seen 500 miles away, an attendance of 100,000,000 in six months, and the same number of dollars in expenditure...