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Elihu Root spends the winter months in Manhattan, the rest in Clinton, N. Y. opposite his beloved Hamilton College where, as "Cube" Root, son of the mathematics professor, he was the youngest and smartest member of his class (1864). Alert, he reads widely, keeps abreast of current affairs. But what he thinks, he keeps almost wholly for those of his "young" intimates who are still alive...
...Flush with a $37,500,000 PWA loan, the Port of New York Authority is hard at work on a second vehicular tube to New Jersey, the Midtown Hudson Tunnel at 39th Street. Eased into place by tugs last week was a bright red. hollow cube of steel as big as an eight-roomed house. After riveters build its steel walls higher, diggers working under compressed air in the lower chamber of the caisson will excavate enough mud to permit the base to settle down 100 ft. below water level. From that point they will dig sideways toward New Jersey...
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...more than one particle of star dust in each 15 cu. in. of interstellar space. If that is so, then all the star dust along the 25-million-million-mile line between Earth and Proxima Centauri, nearest star except the Sun, could be packed in a half-inch cube...
Gold is such heavy stuff that a 17-in. cube weighs a ton. It took four husky gnomes to budge each little truck. They trundled the selected trucks a distance of 30 ft. across the vault, bunched them together against the wall. Having seen this done, Governor Norman's emissary returned upstairs and a cable was dispatched to the Federal Reserve Bank...