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Waterways (Herein the only reference to his fame as an engineer) : "All these projects will probably require an expenditure of upwards of one billion dollars within the next four years. It comprises the largest engineering construction ever undertaken by any government. It involves three times the expenditure laid out upon the Panama Canal. It is justified by the growth, need and wealth of our country. The organization and administration of this construction is a responsibility of the first order. For it we must secure the utmost economy, honesty and skill. These works which will provide jobs for an army...
After reading the letter in the newspapers, Dr. Straton promptly agreed to the debate, and made almost hourly suggestions, such as a return debate in St. Patrick's Cathedral, a continuation of the debate in a dozen southern cities, and that the largest Manhattan auditorium be selected in preference to Calvary Church. The Governor would have none of these. He desired merely to defend his reputation as a (sexually) right-thinking man before the congregation before which he believed he had been slandered by innuendo...
Knowing persons recalled that all smart sea captains make a practice of announcing or denying the occurrence of sea marvels-such as "worst storms," "first whales of the season" or "largest icebergs"-with intent to cause the names of their ships to appear in public prints. Indulgent pressmen did not mind printing the ships which went a-Gulf-Streaming last week: Homeric & Majestic, Mauretania and Columbus...
...Chrysler obtains the third largest and one of the most profitable commercial car businesses in the world...
Papua (New Guinea), largest island of the archipelago that lies just north of Australia, like scattered shards of a frail continent, is the home of cannibals, gibbons, serpents and birds of paradise. To get some of those birds, and on his way to photograph other jungle life, for the New York Zoological Park, Curator Lee S. Crandall left Manhattan last week. At Port Moresby, Papua, he will make up his field expedition of habitants and natives. Particular end of his quest is the "Rudolf," largest and most gorgeous bird of paradise. When it is not drifting between twilit trees...