Word: viaduct
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...busy person. Few days after his inauguration last week he was to argue a case against the City of Baltimore, which for two years he has kept enjoined from building a viaduct which Taxpayer Henry Louis Mencken describes as being "useless as a suspension bridge over the city reservoir." President Gordon is a bibliophile. Some years ago Federal officials seized as "obscene" a set of Rabelais sent him from a European bindery. When Congress passed the amendment admitting recognized classics for private collectors, President Gordon persuaded Secretary Mellon to remove Rabelais from the Treasury Department's blacklist. Lately President...
...Manhattan, Adolph Kanter, 44, drove his car through the railing and off a 75-ft. viaduct, found that instead of being killed he had suffered only a black eye, a few bruises. More proud than thankful, Adolph Kanter said he had saved himself by clinging to the cushion of his car, wrote an ode about his feat: Here I am, the miracle man, The one that flies in a Chrysler car; Lindy hopped over the ocean, Made a perfect landing in France; So did I make a perfect landing Over a Viaduct fence. I dropped seventy-five feet with...
...whose line, capitalized at the high figure of $440,000 per mile, is one of the best-built and most scrupulously maintained main lines in the country. On its comparatively short stretch [New York to Buffalo] are to be found two remarkable railroad formations: the 2,230 ft. Tunkhannock Viaduct, largest concrete bridge in the world; and the 3-mi. Pequest Fill, largest railroad embankment in the world...