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...longest bridge cannot compare in size or expense with the great bridges of the U. S. Half the length of the Queensboro Bridge in Manhattan, it cost tiny Denmark $8,000,000, or slightly more than has been set aside to build the approaches to the great San Francisco-Oakland bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Little Belt Spanned | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...Last week President Roosevelt and Citizen Herbert Hoover found themselves in cooperation. From the White House the President pressed a key which closed an electric circuit which exploded some dynamite which broke the ground for the projected San Francisco-Oakland Bay ("World's Greatest") Bridge. On Goat Island, in the middle of the bay, Citizen Hoover shoved a golden spade into the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Jul. 17, 1933 | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

...order for 124,000 tons of structural steel for the R. F. C.-backed San Francisco-Oakland bridge was awarded U. S. Steel's American Bridge Co. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Downtown | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

Between Sept. 16?30: San Francisco-Oakland, Sacramento, Reno, Los Angeles, San Diego, Tuscon, El Paso, Fort Worth, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Tulsa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Itinerary | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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