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...Benito Mussolini briskly ordered work on the road begun and that night St. Mark's Square in Venice blazed with Venetian lanterns and bengal lights. Opened last week, the road is 57 mi. long, 2½ mi. of it a bridge over the lagoon proper, strung on arches sunk in the mud. It runs beside the railway viaduct and between the two is a concrete groove reserved for bicyclists. At the city end is Europe's biggest garage to take in the automobiles that will enter roadless Venice by its only motor entrance. Some Venetians muttered that...
...Leviathan had seen ten years of fall and spring service before it sunk at its moorings in mid-winter. The sinking was not unexpected, and was remarkable only because the ship had lasted as long...
...month appealed by proclamation for mortgagees to suspend foreclosures until the General Assembly could act, New York Life led off fortnight ago with this voluntary farm relief. Of the $1,666,000,000 which 52 life insurance companies have invested in U. S. farm mortgages, $455,834,078 was sunk into the black soil of Iowa. Iowa farm mortgage holdings of the principal life insurance companies: Equitable of New York, $90,040,095; Metropolitan, $64,422,538; Equitable of Iowa, $50,098,679; Northwestern Mutual, $40,809,401; Bankers of Iowa, $35,130,952; Mutual Benefit, $34,859,529; John...
...bewildering moment it seemed as though a ventriloquist were taking part in the performance of Die Walküre given last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Soprano Frida Leider, singing Brünnhilde, had sunk limply to the ground, crushed by Wotan's wrathy reprimand. Feebly, brokenly she started remonstrating with him. Then her voice died away. Another soprano voice, shriller, more biting than Madame Leider's, came out from the wings, sang until Madame Leider, regaining her composure, stood up and finished the performance so capably that most of the audience thought their ears...
Graham showed a definite engineering accomplishment with a low-sunk chassis made possible by running the rear axle through the frame instead of under...