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The event that started the dream was a great communications merger in England, the formation of Cables & Wireless Ltd., the stock of which was traded in for the first time last month. Into that merger the British poured four great cable systems (including one government-owned), the government beam wireless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Great Dream | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

2) Across the Hudson River between two gigantic steel towers in Manhattan and New Jersey was spun, with appropriate ceremonies (Governors handshaking), the first strand of the first cable of the world's largest suspension bridge. Built by the Port of New York Authority at a cost of 60...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Biggests | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Citizens of Villa Atuel in prosperous wine-growing Mendoza Province awoke one night last week with a great roaring in their ears. Houses fell. The earth swelled and cracked open beneath them. In a few moments the town was completely wiped out, 40 were killed, 100 injured, in the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Quake | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

The living quarters of the house are several feet above the ground giving it, the appearance of a bushy tree. The structure is hexagonal in shape, suspended from a central tower by cables. The inventor uses for the main theory of his work the principle that triangles and hexagons are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unique Dynamic House of Arborial Design Will Solve Future Dwelling Problems--Inventor Claims Harmony With Nature | 5/21/1929 | See Source »

On successive days no small divergence in interpreting events at Geneva widened between correspondents on the spot and the press officials of the U. S. State Department. The former developed a pessimistic and the latter an optimistic view of chances that the Powers would agree to reduction of armaments. "Mischievous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Battling for Reduction | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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