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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Tst, tst. Broderick Crawford's shoes in Of Mice and Men (TIME, Dec. 6) have a 4½-in. buildup, not 4 in., as reported. I ought to know-I made them. In street shoes Crawford stands 6 ft. 1½ in., in my shoes (Trademark "Staturaid" patent pending) he's a 6½ footer. Incidentally, this was only the second theatrical order I executed and with that buildup you can't expect inconspicuousness. My regular customers, business and professional people (average sales 200 pairs a month), generally need only 1½ to 2 inches...
...through Washington and Memphis to Fort Worth, then skirts the Mexican border and enters Los Angeles from the south. American also has a line from Chicago to Los Angeles through St. Louis and Fort Worth. According to the advertisement, on these runs the average altitude is precisely 1,101 ft., and therefore is the best way to fly to Los Angeles...
...Patterson's "normal airway width" apparently does not coincide with the Department of Commerce airway width of 50 mi. Thus Hayden's Peak (12.473 ft.), near which United's "Mainliner" crashed in October, approximately 24 mi!es south of the centre of United's transcontinental lane, is evidently not considered on United':; regular right...
...Jersey City, completed in 1927 and this year used by 13,000,000 vehicles (at 50?& up)-the Lincoln Tunnel was started in 1934 and has cost about $43,000,000 to date. Unlike the two-tube Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel has completed so far only one 21-ft. 6-in. tube, now carrying two-way traffic. The other will be finished in 1941, when each tube will carry one-way traffic. The completed structure lies under 20 feet of silt, 75 feet below the Hudson's surface. It is just over 1½ miles long, ceilinged...
...another side road branches off to the Silent City of Rocks, 25 sq. mi. of massive granite fragments shaped like cathedrals, towers, skyscrapers, toadstools. Eighty-two miles from Pocatello is the largest potato-flour mill in the world. At Twin Falls, 42 miles farther, Shoshone Falls drops 212 ft. From the walls of Snake River Canyon, 32 miles on, Idaho's famed Thousand Springs gush enough water to supply all the big cities...