Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year they met and shook hands beneath the bottom of the Hudson River. This year they met and shook hands above the Hudson's surface-two Irish-blooded politicians, neighbors, mutual admirers; Governors Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York and Arthur Harry Moore of New Jersey. Last year's ceremony was to celebrate the opening of the Holland Vehicular Tunnel between lower Manhattan and Jersey City (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926). On that occasion, gold teeth flashing and freckles getting lost in dimples, the Governors had jocularly pushed and pulled each other across the interstate line. Last week...
...three longest suspension bridges existing at present are: 1) the bridge at Philadelphia reaching across the Delaware, with a span of 1,750 ft.; 2) the Peekskill (Bear Mountain) bridge over the Hudson-1,632 ft.; 3) the Williamsburg bridge over the East River-1,600 ft. The new bridge is to be 3,192 ft.-twice the length of the Brooklyn Bridge...
...Electric Co. (already a part of the earlier merger) to pool their power resources. Their lines will interlace between Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Buffalo, Trenton and Newark; will get current from hydro-electric establishments at Niagara Falls, at Conowingo (now building by Philadelphia Electric) and on the St. Lawrence River near Ogdensburg, N. Y. (planned by General Electric). Although physical properties of these companies will be as one, their financial fabric cannot be closely knit under present interpretations of anti-trust laws. Anticipating that Congress will discuss such power mergers, interested companies are putting into motion a vast machinery...
...Paris Marn. Safely it was stored in an 18-car train of the Canadian Pacific-$6,000,000 of silk. The world first heard of it when $1,500,000 of it (five car loads) lay wrecked and storm-strewn in the valley of Frazer River, only 100 miles east of Vancouver. Cause: derailment or broken car wheel. And the operators of the Canadian Pacific- than which no railroad is better known throughout the world-how were they to feel? They felt the more distressed because of their amazing record of having transported about $25,000,000 of silk every...
...STORY OF GEOLOGY-Allan L. Benson-Cosmopolitan ($4). The vast rhythms of the dying stars, the sleepy, dwindling music of the tides, the rigadoons that dinosaurs danced in a primeval sunset, the hungry chisels of rain and wind and river; these are the paraphernalia of geology, the most spectacular, if the most inexact of sciences. Most laymen have no notion of its reaches, beyond a superficial jargon, culled from newssheets, of meaninglessly enormous chunks of time and space. For such laymen as prefer facts to fantasies, Author Benson ably, if condescendingly, puts forward geological facts (e.g.-the air ten miles...