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...Back over the tail lie New York and its satellites like a giant Christmas tree blown to the ground, with the lights still burning. Heavy yellow lines mark the trunk and main branches tapering off to isolated pinpoints that try to hold the tip designs, as if the decorators ran short of bulbs...
Contracts, Plans. When Edward Johnson sailed home from Europe this summer, he carried in his trunk as many contracts, in his head as many new plans, as anyone could desire. He had hired such singers as Poland's Gertrud Riinger, whose dramatic soprano made her a favorite in Berlin; Soprano Franca Somigli, who grew up in Manhattan as plain Marian Clarke, won fame four years ago in Europe and delighted Mussolini; Soprano Gina Cigna, who earned a gold medal studying piano at the Paris Conservatory, has been a star at Milan's La Scala ever since Toscanini recommended...
This excellent conduit consists essentially of two copper tubes with copper wires running through the centre of each, the whole sheathed in lead. The current travels on the inside wall of the tubes, the outside skin of the wires. Whereas ordinary telephone trunk lines have booster stations at least every 50 miles, serviced by human attendants, the coaxial cable has automatic booster stations every ten miles, accessible through manholes if repairs are needed...
...Commission that high railroad freight rates put it at a disadvantage in competing with the ports of Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston. Last week, over railroad protests, the I. C. C. recognized Albany as an Atlantic port, ordered the roads to allow Albany the lower rates to the western trunk lines applicable to seaborne goods landed at other eastern ports. In handling European shipping into the Midwest, Albany's new rate status puts her on a par with Philadelphia, behind Baltimore, ahead of New York. Another gain from last week's decision...
...then prepared to short-wave its show over the Berkshires to Cheshire Harbor, where it would be put on a telephone trunk and piped to Springfield's Station WBZA for national rebroadcasting...