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EVEN in depressed times, America is a stimulating country to visit, and I found the present national outlook a good deal more subdued than on the occasions of my previous visits ; one, ten years ago at the height of a boom period, the other, during the Great War. Even so, the public and industrial activities of the United States seem to have lost little of their customary courage. San Francisco, lacking a site for its projected International Exhibition in 1939, has not hesitated to create one in the shape of an artificial island, some 400 acres in extent, in the middle of the bay. Not content with this, the city has just spent twenty-three million pounds in four years on two large new bridges, one of them, across the Golden Gate, having a record span of 4,200 feet. New York City is building at monumental expense a new elevated high-speed roadway along the water-front of Manhattan Island to try to relieve the traffic congestion, while Los Angeles is constructing road tunnels with the same object.
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KAYE, G. America Revisited. Nature 141, 495–498 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141495a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141495a0