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...learned bob-sled driving in Europe. Closest to the Colgate team was the Adirondack Bobsled Club team, piloted by Donna Fox. On its last run the Fox sled, with "knee action'' runners made of an aluminum alloy, jumped the track just below Whiteface, landed safely on the roadway beside...
...Shui-hui (volunteer fire companies) were drawn up with their hoses ready. They might have been preparations for a riot, a great parade or a state funeral. A funeral in a sense it was. All night long gangs of coolies in ragged padded cotton clothing passed down that roadway dragging creaking carts and wheelbarrows piled high with boxes and packing cases. Three thousand separate cases went that night, 882 more went the next day. Treasure valued at $20.000.000 which the Manchu Emperors of China assembled for 250 years went south, last week, to Nanking and Shanghai...
...build "Sydney's Dream," the world's largest single-arch bridge, across Sydney harbor. Three months ago "Sydney's Dream" was opened with official pomp, unofficial commotion (TIME, March 28). Last week it gave promise of becoming Sydney's nightmare. Large cracks appeared in the roadway, running both transversely and longitudinally. The bridge is paved with a coke compound. The compound contains sulphur. Engineers examining the paving, which was laid on a steel deck, found that the sulphur is setting up a chemical reaction which, if unchecked, must cause the steel deck rapidly to corrode...
...Boston shore will be extended on an average of 135 feet, with a maximum extension of 300 feet and a minimum of 115 feet. No roadway is to be constructed upon any part of the embankment, but it will be loamed and seeded with grass, embellished with trees and shrubbery, and paths will be laid near to the water's edge...
...Foster, No. 1 U. S. Communist whose Trade Union Unity League embraces the National. According to strikers, the deputies started firing without warning. Throwing rocks, the miners stood their ground for 15 min. When the smoke cleared away, twelve strikers, including a woman, lay wounded and groaning in the roadway. A man named Peter Zigaric was killed. Forty-one of his comrades were arrested...