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Crossing from the San Francisco side, the motorist ascends a mile-long ramp up Rincon Hill, then over the world's two largest suspension bridges, stretching end-to-end for two miles to Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island. There, the highway dives for 500 ft. through the world's largest bore tunnel, 76 ft. wide, 58 ft. high. Next come the world's third largest cantilever bridge (1,400 ft.), five smaller spans, then a long trestle to the Oakland shore. Total length is eight and one quarter miles. The whole structure is strong enough to resist...
...thirds complete, the Bay Bridge is a serpentine skeleton of steel more than four miles long. Two suspended spans, each almost a mile long and bigger than Manhattan's famed George Washington Bridge across the Hudson, reach from San Francisco to Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island, about midway across the Bay. At Yerba Buena the roadway dives through a rocky hill for 540 ft. From Yerba Buena to Oakland for two and a half miles stretch one huge cantilever bridge, five smaller spans, then a long trestle. It was the centre of the 11,400-ft. cantilever which was joined...
...front row seat all sessions of the Legislature at Sacramento. Few were heartless enough to ridicule him. When a shopkeeper hung a caricature of him in his window, Norton I smashed it with impunity. His decrees, one of which directed the erection of a bridge from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island which was begun 63 years later under the reign of Herbert Hoover, were solemnly printed in newspapers. Banks cashed his modest, worthless checks and people took his imperial banknotes bearing 7% interest, which he promised to redeem in 1880. That year Norton I died...
...Supreme Court rose for the summer. Chief Justice Hughes prepared to sail for a vacation at Palermo. Justice Holmes returned to his home at Beverly Farms, Mass, to read and rest. Justice Brandeis hurried away to his sum mer cottage at Chatham near Cape Cod. The golf courses about Buena Vista Spring, Pa. drew Justice Butler. Justice Stone waited for warmer weather before going to fish on his own private island near Isle au Haut off the coast of Maine. Justice Sutherland will spend the summer quietly at Burlingame, Calif. Justice Roberts will farm strenuously at Phoenixville, Pa. Justice...
...famed mouse plagues have occurred in the U. S. One was in Humboldt Valley, Nev., in 1906-07. At the height of the plague there were from 8,000 to 12,000 mice per acre on large ranches. In 1926 an army of house mice marched out of the Buena Vista lake basin maize fields. Meadow mice joined them. Hundreds of thousands swarmed over the country, devastated 100 sq. mi. (TIUME...