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...Broadacres is Wright's answer to the problem of the crowded machine-age city. In Broadacres, homes, factories, office and municipal buildings are separated by wide park spaces planted with lawns and trees. Its farms rub elbows with its town hall. Its warehouses are part of its underground railway system...
...Army. It was around 8:30 when they heard it, a sound anyone could recognize, the dull boom like the slamming of an underground door. Sixty miles to the east, at Woodbridge, N. J., the dust and debris settled over what had been the plant of United Railway Signal Corp., over a horrible group of ragged bundles that had been two men, six women...
...strangely. I have heard Certain shrieks in Europe no mortal man Can hear, and bear with calmness his mortality ; I have heard the bones of a Jew singing of Germany. . . . -But most I hear a sound like a watch ticking. You hear it not? -You pale in railway-stations, You haunted in offices, you waking, you a-dream-Yon hear it not? Go to, go to, you lie-The hand shifts, the weight falls, the wheels turn ticking; The enormous Clock of Doom winds up to strike...
Last year, distinguished guests included the presidents of the New England Telephone and Telegraph and the Boston Elevated Railway. This year, pertinent to the problems of shortage of machines for national defense, the program will include the head of a large tool firm...
Farther north another spearhead drove toward Fiorina, whence another railway leads to vital Salonika on the eastern coast. Greek counter-raids against this northern drive did get to Albanian soil, and did cause the Italians some embarrassment at their rear...