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...feet of silt, 75 feet below the Hudson's surface. It is just over 1½ miles long, ceilinged in glass tile, employed 1,300 WPA workers at an average $1 per hour, is fitted on the Manhattan side with approaches which fan into half-a-dozen little feeder streets. Authorized fortnight ago was construction of a cross-town vehicular tunnel which will connect the Lincoln Tunnel to the abuilding Queens Midtown Tunnel, another pair of tubes under the East River to the Borough of Queens. These additional arteries will channel through traffic from Long Island to New Jersey...
...Flash" Gordon and George Clark have been high-scoring at the forward positions, and Roger Pierce and Max Manker have held down the guard berths capably. Harold Curtiss has shown himself a capable pass feeder from his center spot. William Calfee, Hamlin Williston, Harris Squibb, and Eric Witherby have also played in the two Adams games...
...leading league scorers, Arthur Page, clumsy but deadly in front of the enemy cage, Howie Mendel, dynamite southpaw wing whose shots have been dodged by the wrong kind of horseshoes all year, Tom Motley, team player, plugger, due for a big afternoon, Frank Harnden, long legged feeder of passes, are ready to swarm in the Yale secondary...
Drops of water trickling down a wooded hillside swell to a runnel, a rivulet, a brook, a creek, join the great feeder streams and then the long, smooth, thousand-mile slide of the Big River, widening to the Gulf. Down river cotton is king. Up north there is timber. "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns but at what a cost." The forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota slip down sluices to the tune of "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The Alleghenies are laid open in the quest for coal and ore. And the uncontrolled Mississippi...
...whose unique job it is to cook and prepare their food. Among the things the animals will eat during one year are: 1,600 frogs, 50 pounds of dried flies, 220 pounds of ant eggs, 1,300 chameleons, besides such usual food as carrots, beef, bananas, apples, grain. Daintiest feeder is the pigmy marmoset, which, for meat, eats only the smallest young lizards...