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Queensway is 2-1/7 mi. long, or nearly half a mile longer than the Holland Tunnel between New York and New Jersey under the Hudson River. The latter consists of two tubes, with two lanes of one-way traffic in each. Queensway, being a single tube, has four lanes of traffic. Said Queensway's Chief Engineer Sir Basil Mott: "We owe much to experience gained by the Americans in building the Holland Tunnels...
Sixth tallest measured peak in the world is 26,620-ft. Nanga-Parbat ("Mountain of Horror"), 900 mi. northwest of Everest.* A British army officer named A. F. Mummery tried to scale it in 1895. He and two Ghurka porters disappeared crossing a high pass. No one attacked Nanga-Parbat again for nearly 40 years...
...mercantile firm of Gardiner G. & Samuel S. Howland. his uncles. The firm later fell largely into his hands, developed a thriving trade in the Mediterranean, an unrivalled one in the Pacific and East Indies, a downright monopoly in Venezuela. His venture into the promotion of the 49-mi. Panama R.R., whose eastern terminus was called Aspinwall,* and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. which linked it to both sides of the continent, was regarded by his associates as a bold speculation for so sober-sided a financier as William Aspinwall. Promoter Aspinwall got his railroad charter from the New York Legislature...
Leaving behind in Panama a wreath of newspaper eulogies calling him "the world's best neighbor," President Roosevelt and the Houston vanished into a blazing Pacific sunset. Next day the cruiser anchored off tiny Cocos Island, 500 mi. west of Panama, where Vincent Astor had told the President there was good fishing. From its davits the President's special fishing launch splashed into the blue waters. All hands applauded when the President hooked, played and landed a 50 lb. ono (mackerel-like fish). Franklin Jr.'s ono had its tail snapped off by a shark as it was being pulled...
...huge predatory bird. The "hen hawk'' landed, turned out to be the sailplane Albatross II in which Richard du Pont made a world's record distance flight fortnight ago (TIME, July 9). Out stepped Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite, to explain he had just soared 80 mi. from Elmira. N. Y. where the fifth annual contest of the Soaring Society of America closed last week...