Tho railway between Petrograd and Moscow runs in a practically straight line for 360 miles. The next longest straight stretch is one of 330 miles on the Nullar bor Plajn. and' the East to West railway in Australia. A world's record for speedly construction is claimed for the tanker Agwihavre, built for the Atlantic, Gulf, and West Indies Transportation Company, and launched in April at the/Sun shipbuilding yard at Chester-on-the-Delaware. The vessel, 12.940 deadweight tons-and 485 ft long between perpendiculars, was built in ninety-seven working days, which tlis (iompaiiy says ia a record'for the iiK it tii«%bip.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 35, 10 August 1921, Page 3
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