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Meanwhile applications for advances on self-liquidating public projects began to pile up at the R. F. C. door. The Port of New York Authority wanted financial help to start a second vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River at a cost of $75,000,000. For joint fee of $5,000 Los Angeles hired Joseph Scott. Hoover nominator at Chicago, and William Gibbs McAdoo, Roosevelt stampeder at Chicago, to wangle a $32.000,000 loan with which to build a power transmission line from Hoover Dam. A Miami citizen sought $12,000,000 to build a highway bridge from the mainland...
Denver is a synthetic city. It is off the transcontinental railroad line. The $18,000,000 Moffat Tunnel through the Continental Divide may eventually bring coast-to-coast traffic through Denver, but until it does the city remains at a random spot on the broad bench east of the Continental Divide. The foothills begin ten miles west, the plains region stretches east to the Missouri River. Sixty miles to the south is Pike's Peak, a truncated cone up whose flanks automobiles race every Labor Day. Isolation is a blessing to Denver now that it is grown...
...endowment, the Daniel Guggenheim Foundation for the Promotion of Aeronautics allotted one-tenth for lighter-than-air study. Housed in a new building at the Akron Municipal Airport, hard by the gigantic Goodyear-Zeppelin dock, the Guggenheim Airship Institute was to be dedicated this week. Features: largest vertical wind tunnel in existence, 60 ft. high; a small wind tunnel for testing instruments; meteorological tower; structural testing room. Chief problems to be attacked: nature of the so-called "boundary layer" of air, adjacent to the outer skin of an airship, and its resistant effect upon outriggers, radiators, ventilator hoods and other...
...vertical wind tunnel through which smoke is poured around a suspended plane model, to expose the tricks of air currents causing the dread tailspin. Photographs indicated that, the prime obstacle to recovery from a spin is the "blanketing" of the rudder by the horizontal tail surfaces...
...Manhattan, off for the weekend in their sedan, Louis Kuntzman & family could not have been more surprised when a policeman stopped them at the entrance to Holland Tunnel and news photographers came crowding around. The Kuntzman's car, explained the policeman reassuringly, was the 50 millionth to enter the westbound tube since it opened...