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National Geographic : 1936 Nov
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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE WILL YOU HAVE A HAM SANDWICH OR A SIRLOIN STEAK? A popular lunch counter is a Royal Blue feature. In its colonial dining cars the Baltimore and Ohio has reproductions of colonial china and it gives women patrons facsimiles of famous recipes from which some of its dishes are made. This one is copied verbatim from Martha Washing ton's Mount Vernon cookbook: "To Make a Custard-Take a quart of fweet creame & ftrayne therein 2 whites of eggs & 8 youlks well beaten put them in a difh with a grated nutmegg a little falt & halfe a pound of sugar ftir them well together & foe bake it you may allfoe put in some rofe water if you please" (page 554). never visited a large freight yard. It is too dangerous. A railroad employee has to learn more safety rules-a 41-page book of them on one system-than he does when he applies for an automobile driver's license. Guards can spot a visitor in the yard as readily as a sailor can recognize a land lubber. Stepping on a rail, sitting on a tie, or crossing a track nearer than ten feet from a standing train would mean a black mark on his safety record for a railroad man. But it is surprising that among the mil lions of passengers who buy tickets in rail road stations so few have ever gone through one thoroughly. STATIONS RANK WITH PUBLIC BUILDINGS In many cities, Chicago, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Cleveland, Newark, and others, passenger stations rank among the finest public buildings, and are informative mu seums of modern life. The Grand Central Terminal, in New York, is a seventh wonder of the engineer ing world, a 48-acre city within a city. Tracks once barred cross-town traffic north of 42d Street, and steam engines puffed smoke into the heart of high-priced Manhattan real estate where stately Park Avenue and its busy intersections now are located. To keep on using this valuable area, bounded by 42d and 50th Streets, Lexing ton and Madison Avenues, for a station and yard entailed a prohibitive cost. So the New York Central leveled off the surface for these busy streets, erected its mammoth station and adjacent office build ing, then leased long-term air rights for other skyscrapers, including the new Wal dorf-Astoria, loftiest hotel in the world (page 556). It bored beneath the entire area for one level of 41 tracks, for a lower level of 39 tracks, and then farther down, deep into rock, for a giant power plant which moves 580
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