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...June. Since then the race has always been smooth and comfortable, quite unlike similar ones on the Atlantic. It has never taken any lives, caused any wrecks. Fastest passage was made in 1923 when the 107-ft. schooner Mariner sailed from Santa Barbara to Honolulu in u days, 14 hr., 46 min. Last race, in 1934, was won by the 60-ft. schooner Mariner owned and sailed by Honolulu's Harold G. Dillingham, commodore of the Transpacific Yacht Club...
...eight traffic lanes of the bridge can handle 57,000 vehicles per 12-hr, day. First 24 hours the bridge was opened last week 50,000 automobiles crossed over. In the next twelve hours 50.000 more crossed. Motorists paid 25? toll per car, trucks up to 75?. Passenger cars were compelled to travel 40 m.p.h. across the bridge. Fifteen minutes sufficed to cover distances which heretofore required well over an hour through narrow streets and over older bridges. Immediate result of the Triborough's opening: a 30% drop in traffic across the older East River bridges between Manhattan...
...section of the Los Angeles sewer system which no live eye has seen since the city's discharge started flowing through it, 220,000,000 gal. per hr. at the rate of 3 ft. per sec., is the 6-mi. tunnel under the Del Rey Hills to the ocean. Last week Reuben Brown prepared to travel those six subterranean miles in a non-sinkable 9-ft. punt...
...heavy gale at night, Fleetwing shipped a sea which carried eight men overboard. Two were swept back by the next comber, but the rest were lost. Despite this tragedy, Fleetwing finished second, 40 minutes ahead of Vesta and only eight hours behind Henrietta, winner in 13 days, 21 hr...
Four years later came the next ocean race, with the 108-ft. English schooner Cambria beating the U. S. schooner Dauntless from Ireland to Sandy Hook by only 1 hr., 43 min. Two Dauntless seamen were lost...