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...light bulb at Chicago's Fair of 1893 will appreciate the "Century of Progress" idea when they see the show's location. Within view of one of the country's tallest city skylines, on the lakefront from 12th to 39th Streets, the buildings surround a long lagoon and stand almost entirely on "made" land that did not exist when the Columbian Exposition was held five miles south of the Loop. Approaching this year's Fair from the heart of town the visitor's first sight will be two 625-ft. steel towers joined by cables...
...years no enemy could reach island Venice by land. Navigation was difficult in the lagoon that separates it from the mainland. Venetians skated over the shallows in flat-bottomed gondolas, floated their houses on piles in the alluvial mud, cherished their "splendid isolation." They lost part of it when an iron railway viaduct was strung across the Laguna Venetia in 1846. But not until last week did a road, of brick and stone and concrete, ever attach Venice, "Pearl of the Adriatic," to Italy's mainland...
...pretty sentiment. In 1931 Benito Mussolini briskly ordered work on the road begun and that night St. Mark's Square in Venice blazed with Venetian lanterns and bengal lights. Opened last week, the road is 57 mi. long, 2½ mi. of it a bridge over the lagoon proper, strung on arches sunk in the mud. It runs beside the railway viaduct and between the two is a concrete groove reserved for bicyclists. At the city end is Europe's biggest garage to take in the automobiles that will enter roadless Venice by its only motor entrance. Some...
...Swedish confidence in Sweden's fiscal strength was almost back to normal, there was still excitement in the Grand Hotel which faces King Gustav's palace across a small lagoon...
...lagoon which will be built will provide a place where small boats may be used and where skating will be possible in the winter time. Coincident with the completion of the work, boat landings and recreational facilities will be installed...