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...tenacious guarding of the Crimson prevented the Milton quintet from working the ball in near the basket, and even good set shots from out on the floor were few and far between. The harder they tried the wilder they became, and the final gun found them vainly trying to connect from almost mid-court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '42 BASKETEERS DRUB MILTON QUINT 35 TO 7 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...Already in effect is a concession to Germany whereby trains from Annaberg and Mittehwalde to Breclav are not subject to Czech customs regulation as they cross Bohemia. A German-built canal will connect the Oder and the Danube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Split | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Connect the main island to the parkway with four new bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: New Promised Land | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...that "private utilities had been charging customers from $1,500 to $2,500 a mile for stringing lines to their doors." So far as Detroit Edison Co. is concerned, their rate book shows that they charge $500 per mile for stringing the lines to their customers. If the customers connect to the line at the time it is strung, each customer receives a rebate of $100. If, then, there are five customers in any mile, the line-stringing costs the customers nothing. If there were but one customer to a mile, it would cost but ($400. . . . J. A. GALLERY Tuscola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1938 | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Under the coarse glacial bed of Manhattan's murky East River, sand hogs for the last year have been boring the two tubes of a midtown vehicular tunnel intended by 1940 to connect Manhattan Island with Long Island. Each 31 feet in diameter, the tubes are bored by great circular "shields." Like the mouth of a great pipe, the shield is forced ahead by hydraulic pressure, cutting two feet eight inches at each thrust into sub-bottom deposit. Between forward thrusts, workmen remove the muck within the shield, line each new section with cylindrical cast-iron casing. Keeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Fire & Water | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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