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...will be built at Black Canyon on the Colorado River, 30 mi. from Las Vegas. Construction job No. 1: A $2,500,000 branch railroad from Las Vegas on the Union Pacific to the dam site. The U. P. is ready to build the first 22 miles of this track, but declines to undertake the last eight miles up back-breaking mountain grades. Construction job No. 2: A $525,000 town at the dam site to house 5,000 workmen and families. Construction job No. 3: $18,000,000 tunnels 50 ft. in diameter to divert the river's flow...
Last week's figures showed New York's metropolitan area?within a 40-mi. radius of the City Hall?to have about 11,000,000 inhabitants, exceeding the aggregate 1930 population of Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia. London's total population for a like area is estimated...
...wind enough to give her hull the headway it needed. She beat each of her rivals on the windward and leeward course and then won the first race on the reaching course. Racing Enterprise next day, Weetamoe blew out the duralumin headboard of her mainsail in a 17-mi. breeze, had to withdraw. Skipper Vanderbilt of Enterprise put about likewise, refused the hollow victory. Designer W. Starling Burgess went aloft in a bo'sun's chair to make sure Enterprise's rigging was shipshape. The halyard fouled and he was stuck at the masthead, red whiskers blowing in the breeze...
...outbreak of cholera in the Island of Bantayan, 300 mi. southeast of Manila, is causing uneasiness throughout the entire Philippine Archipelago. Governor General Dwight Filley Davis returned last week from a tour of the infested district, assured his fellow citizens the plague was under control. Robert Hart, chief quarantine officer of Manila, declared that city was quite safe. But it was learned the disease had spread from Bantayan to the neighboring islands of Cebu and Masbate despite a strict government quarantine which has stopped practically all commerce within the affected region. Especially miserable and hungry were the inhabitants...
Natal-Dakar. Although the South Atlantic has been flown many times from east to west, the eastward route has yet to yield passage to an airplane. Last week Jean Mermoz, pilot for Aeropostale, and two companions took off from Natal, Brazil, flew 16 hours, landed 350 mi. short of Dakar, Africa with a leaky oil line. Flyers and mail were picked up by the despatch boat Phocée, but the seaplane had to be abandoned. Mermoz recently flew the first westbound mail from Senegal to Natal, pioneering a prospective Aeropostale service (TIME...