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The Greensboro Daily News quoted from TIME: "You are struck, on your first visit to Winston-Salem, by the fact that it is off the main railroad line, up in the hills. You have to change trains at Greensboro, a second-rate town (considering its advantages) where, dazzling and unexpected...
Arc Welding. Hotel-managers and their patrons, apartment-dwellers and other city folk, gave thanks for a report by the U. S. Bureau of Standards that arc-welded girder joints can be substituted for pneumatically riveted joints, being as strong, often stronger. The significance: no more cannonading clatter on skyscraper...
You are struck, on your first visit to Winston-Salem, by the fact that it is off the main railroad line, up in the hills. You have to change trains at Greensboro, a second-rate town (considering its advantages) where, dazzling and unexpected above an ill-kempt street lined with...
Michigan. The scale on which things are done in Detroit is becoming legendary. First there was Ford's output; then an 81-story skyscraper; and now the revelations of vice conducted there in the grandest possible manner. Rockefeller Foundation investigators gave Detroit its latest sobriquet, "vilest city in the...
The church will not lack funds. Its present holding, the Park Avenue Baptist Church, is undervalued, considering land values and replacement cost, at $1,750,000 and has several congregations already seeking it. This sum Mr. Rockefeller will duplicate. Additional gifts have been volunteered by others of the congregation, so...