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Last February the Interstate Commerce Commission, which supervises all vehicular interstate haulage for hire, was confronted with an odd request. A man named Clarence Young Rose wanted permission to continue to operate what he called Georgia Caravan Camps Inc., which consisted of an annual cross-country trip of a large group of adolescents in a fleet of truckbusses, led, for cash, by Mr. Rose. Before granting the license, the ICC thought it wise to have a good look at Clarence Young Rose and the Georgia Caravan Camps Inc. Its findings: Clarence Young Rose is a big handsome 51-year...
Under the coarse glacial bed of Manhattan's murky East River, sand hogs for the last year have been boring the two tubes of a midtown vehicular tunnel intended by 1940 to connect Manhattan Island with Long Island. Each 31 feet in diameter, the tubes are bored by great circular "shields." Like the mouth of a great pipe, the shield is forced ahead by hydraulic pressure, cutting two feet eight inches at each thrust into sub-bottom deposit. Between forward thrusts, workmen remove the muck within the shield, line each new section with cylindrical cast-iron casing. Keeping...
...just over 1½ miles long, ceilinged in glass tile, employed 1,300 WPA workers at an average $1 per hour, is fitted on the Manhattan side with approaches which fan into half-a-dozen little feeder streets. Authorized fortnight ago was construction of a cross-town vehicular tunnel which will connect the Lincoln Tunnel to the abuilding Queens Midtown Tunnel, another pair of tubes under the East River to the Borough of Queens. These additional arteries will channel through traffic from Long Island to New Jersey...
...swirled at 20 m. p. h. over five square miles of Cumberland, Md. One man died, of heart failure. The Potomac, two miles wide in places and looking from the air like a huge, clay-colored lake, rolled on to flood seven valley towns. Four spans of the old vehicular bridge at Harper's Ferry, entrance to the Shenandoah Valley, were swept away. At Anacostia the Navy got 35 planes off to Hampton Roads before the flying field went under. In Washington 1,500 WPA workers threw up a 19-ft. dike of earth, stone and sandbags to protect...
Because few spectators at a crew race are in a position to judge the finish, Poughkeepsie race officials long ago devised a method to let the crowd know who has won. The lane in which each crew rows is numbered. When the race is over a man on the vehicular bridge, just above the finish, sets off bombs to indicate the number of the winner's lane. The name of the man is Mike Bogo. A 300-lb. Poughkeepsie barkeeper, he applied for and was long ago awarded the job because he had contracted a passion for playing with...