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Six months after the Russians entered Mukden, industrial metropolis of Manchuria, U.S. correspondents were allowed to enter. Reported TIME Correspondent William Gray:
New York City's spasm of paralysis stemmed from a tugboat strike. When barge-borne supplies of fuel oil and coal dwindled dangerously, Mayor William O'Dwyer ordered the world's greatest city to shut down. It took hours to stop the furious pulse of the metropolis...
New Yorkers often suspect that their complex metropolis floats on quicksand. This week their suspicions were at least partially confirmed. In a move unprecedented in peacetime and more drastic than any ever taken in war, Mayor William D. O'Dwyer suddenly called a halt to all the city'...
¶ Into Changchun, Manchuria's capital, flew the first detachment of Government troops. There ancl in Mukden, Manchuria's industrial metropolis, they took over from the Russians.
The Hyde Park site would seem to fill the bill. It is within easy reach, over fine highways, of the nation's metropolis. In its 1,200 scenic acres there is room to spare for the necessary buildings.