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...Kentucky Governor's colonel ) is the delicate and critical one of being advance man on Presidential trips. He not only examines any room which the President is to enter, but the rooms above and below, all entrances and exits. Every culvert, bridgehead and tunnel through which the President is to pass bears his inspection. His vigilance has often been rewarded. After he for bade President Harding to board an Ohio river boat, the boat sank. A platform he prevented Herbert Hoover from mounting to make a speech collapsed, gutted by termites, not long after...
...Dotsero Cutoff, now 85% completed. Built largely with RFC funds, it will run from Dotsero, Col. on the Denver & Rio Grande Western to Orestod (Dotsero backward) on the Denver & Salt Lake. The Dotsero Cutoff will finally put to more than nominal use the famed Moffat Tunnel just west of Denver. Commonly known as "Moffat's Folly" or "The Gateway to Nowhere," this tunnel was the life-long dream of the late David Halliday Moffat, oldtime Denver banker who sank his $10,000,000 fortune in an attempt to put his home town on a transcontinental system and died twelve...
...over Rollins Pass, 11,600 ft. above sea level. Even when he got his tracks over the top, snow drifts would often force Denver & Salt Lake to shut down for weeks at a time. Now owned by Denver & Rio Grande, the road pierces the Continental Divide through the Moffat Tunnel at an elevation of only 9,000 ft., coasts gently down the western slope of the Rockies to its western terminus at Craig...
Last week Denver got what it has wanted for 75 years when Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy announced that after June11, it would extend the schedule of its crack Chicago-Denver Aristocrat through the Moffat Tunnel over the Dotsero Cut-off to Salt Lake City and over the Western Pacific to San Francisco...
...explosion would echo up San Francisco's Market Street and just 76 minutes after that the airplane would swish down upon San Francisco Bay, at a landing speed of 103 m. p. h. It would, that is. if Engineer John Stack knows how to use a wind tunnel and a slide rule...