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...stricken city, and there was no lack of public works that needed building. With money from the New Deal's "alphabet" agencies, Moses went to work. By 1940, he had changed the city's face. Manhattan's West Side Highway, the Harlem River Drive, the Triborough, Verrazano, Throgs Neck and Bronx-Whitestone bridges, not to mention Riverside, Flushing and Van Cortlandt parks, are only a few of the things that eventually owed their existence to Moses...
...Longest: the Verrazano Narrows, completed in 1964, which stretches 4,260 ft. from Brooklyn to Staten Island...
...South America were discovered by Italians. After Cabot's death, his son Sebastian Cabot continued his father's explorations. He discovered, among other things, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, which serve to this day as a fishing ground for many nations. Another great explorer of Italian lineage was Giovanni Verrazano...
Reasoner, talking about bridges as cam eras frame the Verrazano Narrows span across New York harbor: "Man has made a sewer of the river and spanned it with a poem." Reasoner discussing Americans' fascination with automobile races: "They don't come to see a crash, but if there were never any crashes they'd never come," Because of such commentaries, Harry Reasoner is widely recognized for his wit and perception; in 1966 he received a Peabody Award for his droll television essays. Reasoner is indeed wit ty and perceptive, as he shows in the radio...
...tollbooths that gobble up the loose change of American drivers as they sweep through bridges, tunnels and turnpikes ring up record profits every year. In 1966, toll-road traffic in the U.S. will increase by 10% over 1965, to 750 million vehicles. The new Verrazano-Narrows Bridge across the mouth of New York harbor earned $11 million in the year ending last July; in 1965, the six tunnels and bridges controlled by the Port of New York Authority grossed $64 million...