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...tunnel, named after David H. Moffat, famed railroad builder, is scheduled for completion in August. It will be used by the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad and probably leased to the Burlington and other lines. It shortens the route between Denver and Salt Lake City by 176 miles, cuts a 4% grade to 2%. Tunnels are usually thought of as underground things. The Moffat Tunnel is up in the air to the extent of 9,000 feet above sea level; but it is still 4,000 feet below the summit of James Peak. Drillers and dynamiters have been at work...
...escape, once you have read him, from the powerful and fierce personality that so ruthlessly slashed at Christianity, democracy, feminism, and modern morality, that held up as ideals the Will to Power and the honest, fearless, cruel, yea-sayings superman. Ecce Homo! The critic and destroyer, the builder and the prophet...
...Macaroni is a great muscle builder."--Mussolini...
Roger W. Babson, statistician, big-business-builder, efficiency expert, lately declared: "Higher education today is living in a fool's paradise." He represented that most of his business acquaintances viewed college-trained job-seekers with actual alarm. To find out if this could be generally true, President Simon S. Baker of Washington & Jefferson College (Washington, Pa.) made a pilgrimage to Manhattan, where he interviewed employers and employment agencies from J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Carnegie Foundation on down. Last week President Baker announced that, to his great surprise, much that Mr. Babson had said received wide endorsement. President...
These, together with the Colorado & Southern, which brings them northern Texas cotton traffic, are the "Hill" roads that James Jerome ("Empire builder") Hill (1838-1916) developed. Now, with the Western Pacific which connects the Burlington directly to San Francisco and in which Mr. James bought controlling interest last summer (TIME, June 21), they are more aptly called "James" roads. The Hill descendants have never become active financially...