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...emergency fresh water. The steel railroad rails have been economically reset as guard rails. Most of the workers were Key Westers from relief ranks, among them hundreds of former cigar makers. The new bridged section completes the170-mile Overseas Highway from Miami to Key West, makes Key West the terminus of U. S. 1. most heavily-traveled road in the nation. The other terminus is at Calais, Me., approximately 2,100 miles away on the Canadian border...
...East River and the new Tri-Borough Bridge. Although $2,358,000 went into the land, runways, hangars, seaplane ramps, beacons & facilities for servicing visiting planes when Curtiss-Wright built North Beach in 1929. only schools, private flyers and taxis patronized the field. No line made it a terminus. In 1934 the City of New York agreed to buy it for $1,500,000, leased the property in the meantime for $1 a year, wiped out its $30,000 taxes. North Beach then became Municipal Airport No. 2 (Floyd Bennett is No. i) and when President Roosevelt aboard his yacht...
Touted enthusiastically by sponsors and press as the "greatest," "biggest" airport, New York City's new terminus lags far behind Boise's (Idaho) 8,800-ft. runway; Berlin's 14-minute convenience from Templehof to downtown and London's new Lullingstone Airport's area-700 acres. But none of these has New York's seaplane facilities which might swell the total of all air passengers into New York to 1,000,000 a year instead of the 300,000 that now pass through Newark. Referring to North Beach Airport's completion-its start...
...with grueling transport problems. Only means of carrying food, garrison troops and colonists from the Red Sea coast to Ethiopia's capital was by the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad, 494 mi. of rough, single-track, narrow-gauge roadbed over which crawled rattling, second-hand rolling stock to a terminus in French territory...
...there still have been none because Canada stubbornly insisted that Montreal must be the western terminus of the projected route. Last week this final obstacle to transatlantic service was removed when Colonel John Monroe Johnson, Assistant U. S. Secretary of Commerce, announced in Washington that Canada had finally knuckled under and that the U. S., Great Britain and Canada had ironed out their difficulties...