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Sandhogs-the tough, clannish men who burrow tunnels and subways under rivers and streets-don't startle easily. But a contract awarded in Baltimore last week startled them. What made them blink was the name of the successful bidder: Sam Rosoff, the world's No. 1 subway builder. The job, digging a $9 million, seven-mile-long water tunnel under Baltimore, will be Rosoff's first important contract within the U.S. since 1939. Sandhogs had thought that "Subway Sam" had finished with digging...
...encourage world travel as a vital part of world trade - an additional means of getting money abroad to pay for our goods, and a builder of international understanding and goodwill...
...assist him, Builder Tu called on S. P. Lin (Purdue) and K. T. Fung (Princeton and Harvard). They had virtually no modern machinery, few tools, no new girders to repair bridge spans still lying twisted in river beds. But they made shift with what they had. And in six amazing months, the job was done...
...second great truth to which the signs of the times portend is that we are definitely at the end of a non-religious era of civilization, which regarded religion as an addendum to life, a pious extra, a morale-builder for the individual, but of no social relevance...
...travel alone. In 23 small tombs around her royal chamber lay skeletons of her servants, killed at her death to attend her on the journey. Each had the special tools of his trade so he could serve his mistress. Beside a sacrificed painter lay his paint pots. A boat-builder's skilled spirit hands would provide for the Queen's transportation on the Nile of the other world...