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...infuriating quality of "CG" is that it gets taller and taller. Partial excavation reveals two levels supported by a third. Flooding prevents a definitive look at this third level to ascertain if indeed the foundation doesn't lie further below. At the present moment, "CG" stands at about 43 feet tall...
...most durable and practical material. Thus the Stadium became the first large reinforced concrete structure built in this country. The design had been established several years earlier by Professor L. J. Johnson, following the general plan laid down by the H.A.A. Final drawings called for a stadium 573 feet by 420 feet on the outside, enclosing a field whose overall dimensions were 478 feet by 230 feet...
...Stadium consists of 4,800 concrete slabs, each weighing 1,200 lbs, placed on steel-concrete girders. In the arena, which many still consider the best for viewing a football game, seats range in altitude from seven to 50 feet, and the top of the colonnade is 72 feet above ground. With temporary seats in the open end, the open end, the Stadium's capacity can be raised well above 40,000; the report of a 1929 meeting with Dartmouth puts the crowd at 60,000. In the entire structure there are 250,000 cubic feet of concrete--a mixture...
Laboratories for research in environmental health and nutrition will occupy most of the building's 38,000 square feet. In the basements and on the first four floors the division of Environmental Hygiene will study space biology, air pollution, aviation health and safety, and highway safety...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4--A Mercury space capsule was hurled 35,000 feet high today by a Little Joe rocket, moving America open step nearer getting a man into space...