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...Rockies, something which made Denver a most appropriate spot for this year's convention-an engineering project of magnitude and importance second to none in the U. S. Last fortnight, under the granite groins of the Continental Divide, workmen blasted out the last headings in the main bore of the six-mile Moffat Tunnel which Colorado has been digging since 1923. Another eight weeks, officials predicted, and the first train would go through. The desirability of sending trains under rather than over the Continental Divide at that point was first discovered by a Denver banker, David Halliday Moffat, after...
...nearer Salt Lake City than via the Union Pacific, 174 miles nearer than via Pueblo on the present Denver & Rio Grande Western route; it will carry motorists under the Divide, on flatcars the year round; carry oil, power and water lines through the Divide in a special eight-foot bore parallel...
Clarence D. Chamberlin, contradicting dark rumors that he bore Mr. Levine ill will, flew with Maurice Drouhin to London in the Levine-owned Columbia, to show the Frenchman its tricks and abilities. From London, Maurice Drouhin and the Columbia conveyed Mr. Levine back to Paris, where Mr. Levine rejoined his attorney and press agent...
...Cornelius, N. C., Mrs. G. M. Burton, Negress, does not sing "Ten baby fingers and ten baby toes" to Bettie, a daughter she bore three years ago. Bettie, taken last week to a Charlotte, N. C., clinic for examination, has 18 fingers, 25 toes, on the normal number of hands & feet...
Eggshell Debate. A major Anglo-U. S. point of contention last week, was whether, if the British proposal to limit cruiser guns to a six-inch bore were adopted, the British could transform their fast merchant fleet overnight into a cruiser fleet by mounting these little guns on the Mauretania, Majestic, Berengaria, Olympic...