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...Roebling company will be no novice at the job. Greatest of its great feats was the construction of Brooklyn Bridge. The Bridge was the idea of John Augustus Roebling, the first U. S. engineer to use a steel strand in bridge-building. His foot was crushed in 1869 while making a preliminary survey for Brooklyn Bridge and 18 days later he lay dead of tetanus infection. The work was carried on by his young son Washington Augustus Roebling. an engineer proud of his Civil War-earned rank of Colonel. His specialty was caisson construction and he spent much time...
Engineers estimated that it would take them four years to hang a bridge across the Golden Gate. Last week exactly half that time had elapsed since a $35,000,000 bond issue was voted to finance the Golden Gate Suspension Bridge.? But not a single strand of cable swung silhouetted against the sunset. The two years have been filled with legal wrangling...
...Buffalo dime museum. In 1903 he showed a first film of fire horses answering an alarm. In 1905, in Lynn, Mass., a colored film of the Oberammergau Passion Play was sensational. In 1914 the Brothers Mark opened the first million-dollar Broadway cinema palace, the Mark Strand. Impresario of the epochmaking 18-piece orchestra was Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel. In 1926 Moe Mark sold some of his chain of cinema theatres to Stanley Co. of America which merged (1928) with Warner Brothers; in 1929 he sold the rest to Warner...
...settle the residue of the estate, one auction of furniture and household effects was held at Elmhurst last spring. There was still enough left to keep auctioneers busy for six days last week. All Miss Giulia's jewelry was sold with the rest. Besides her famed four-strand pearl necklace and her 25-carat Ceylon sapphire there was a box full of diamond brooches in the shapes of cow, crescent, rooster, grasshopper, wild duck, beetle, bee, donkey, horse & cab, the U. S. flag, lizard...
Three weeks after the struggle began Mayor I. O. Langum had to issue a municipal order that no one might disturb the combatants. Wiggling desperately, the snake tore the web again & again, but each torn strand clung to it and held it more tightly. Spinning with cold-blooded persistence, the spider lifted the snake higher & higher...