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The new Sixth Avenue route, four and a half years abuilding, cost $60,000,000, is the world's most expensive subway mile for mile. As an engineering feat, it is probably the most complex in railroad history. Within its short 2.2 miles, contractors burrowed under or over six...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Lebensraum for the Straphanger | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Dr. Zapp's trials in attempting to sell a somewhat flinty U. S. press on the merits of doctored, Nazified German news were bared in the lavish detail of Zapp's own correspondence, also urgent Berlin cables demanding information on Franklin Roosevelt's political chances.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Mr. Dies Delivers | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Kirkland, Dunster, and Adams will be on the air as soon as cables can be run to them from transmitting quarters in the basement of Winthrop House. All seven Houses will probably be receiving within the next ten days.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maurois Will Speak Tonight on First Crimson Network Program | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Professor Farquharson hurried back ashore for more film, made his way out on the stricken bridge again as Brown and Coatsworth crawled-stopping when their breath gave out-toward the Tacoma end. From the logging truck a man and woman scrambled and clawed their way to safety. Professor Farquharson discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Narrows Nightmare | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Focsani, 100 miles northeast of Bucharest and the epicentre of the quake, was reported in ruins; Galatz, site of the German submarine base, suffered severely; and Giurgiu, principal oil port on the Danube, saw public buildings and factories reduced to mangled heaps. In Campina, thickly populated oil town, refinery chimneys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Quake and Answer | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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