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...bridge, called the George Washingon Memorial Bridge, is a suspension bridge and contains the longest (3,500 ft.) span in the world. The supporting towers on each side of the Hudson reach 635 ft. above water level. Four steel wire cables, each cable an even yard in diameter, connect the towers and brace the roadways...
...addition to Midget Albie Booth, who made the longest run of the game, Yale showed three other able backs and a forward-passing attack, designed by new Assistant Coach Benny Friedman, which was a novelty in New Haven football. The University of Maine's team lost the game...
...went ahead; last week the final sections of pipe were joined, tests begun. Within the fortnight the line is expected to be in actual operation and within three months the link to Columbia Gas's big eastern network will be completed. This will mark the completion of the longest natural gas "super-system," furnishing fuel from many sources. Feasible in theory, the project is not favored by many natural gas men who devoutly wish Mr. Parish had never started his line...
Last fortnight the first gasoline flowed from several big Oklahoma refineries directly into St. Paul-Minneapolis. This line is backed by Barnsdall Corp., Continental Oil Co., Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., Skelly Oil Co., Pure Oil Co.. and Phillips Petroleum Co., is the longest gasoline pipeline...
...from Brenton's Cove Light Ship to West Chop on Martha's Vineyard. Andiamo beat the other M-boats, when Prestige, after leading half the way, dropped back to finish last in her class. The second day was so foggy the race committee considered calling off the longest leg of the cruise, 73 miles around Cape Cod to Provincetown. When the fog finally lifted, there was almost no wind; the boats drifted along the rough elbow of the Cape till dark. Word came that Michabo had run aground on Shovelful Shoal off the upper tip of Long Island...