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Undertaken last year by New York's Thousand Islands Bridge Authority, the crossing cost $3.050.000, is expected to pay for itself in 15 years with automobile tolls of $1.25. A series of five two-lane bridges connected by a viaduct and about five miles of highway, it traverses four islands, brings 200 others into view, will be cheaper by more than half, quicker by many times than the ride on the nearby Clayton (N. Y.)-Gananoque ferry...
...midnight shift was preparing to enter the Republic Steel plant in Massillon, Ohio one night last week, two cars driven by C. I. O. sympathizers collided, blocking the entrance to the long viaduct leading to the mill. Ohio's Governor Davey, having withdrawn his troops from Massillon, the gate was patrolled by some 30 deputized special guards. Knocking in the windows of the cars the guards dragged out the drivers, while a crowd of pickets surged up to defend them. In the ensuing two-hour battle the nearby union headquarters was nearly wrecked, a baker's dozen...
...namesake who died last July reverted to the older form of the family name: Huddleston. *With no money to repair the hurricane damage along its viaduct right-of-way, Florida East Coast has not run a train to Key West since Labor...
Last week African blacks leaped up & down with excitement, British traders cheered and Scottish missionaries beamed broadly as a train tooted its whistle and chugged across the world's longest railroad bridge. Thus was railroad service inaugurated over the broad Zambesi River on a 33-span viaduct measuring more than two miles in length. The structure had taken two and a half years to build, had cost the Central African & Trans-Zambesi Railway Companies...
Iraq. The great palace at Khorasbad of Sargon II, ruler of Assyria 2,600 years ago, has kept diggers of the University of Chicago last week by Leader Gordon Loud, was to excavate a 420 x 250 ft. temple, connected to the palace by a graceful stone viaduct and dedicated to Nabu, god of scribes and historians. Nabu's staue was gone from the central shrine where once it stood. But on the stonework bordering the steps was a prayer addressed to Nabu by King Sargon. There were carvings in wood and ivory, some of Egyptian inspiration, others bearing...