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For 1,400 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...
To the Peiping Railway Station from the gigantic piles of pink masonry which are the towering gates of the Forbidden City, all traffic was cut off. Troops with fixed bayonets lined the road. At strategic intervals the Shui-hui (volunteer fire companies) were drawn up with their hoses ready. They...
At the door of the Bullion Room its foreman scrutinized the order, then beckoned to his helpers, strapping hairy-chested gnomes in leather aprons who had rolled up their sleeves for action. Striding into the spacious vault they advanced upon a mass of gold roughly eight times as great as...
Buckminster Fuller talks no riddles when he says his dymaxion house "is not property to be owned, but a mechanical arrangement to be used." The new model has a fixed circular core, cased in a streamlined, pearshaped shield which swings with the wind, like a feed-tray for birds. The...
Though the importance of the itinerant junkman, picking up rusty chunks of iron & steel wherever he can, has dwindled, he still supplies over 10% of the total tonnage. What he collects in his backyard, he sells to the dealer for cash. Thus, dealers large & small require bank credits to carry...