PIERS FOR LINERS
£5,000,000 HUDSON RIVER PLAN NEW YORK, July 31., 'New York City is planning to construct a huge basin in Hudson River, with piers I,looft to 1,400 ft long in order to accommodate the great transatlantic liners being built or contemplated by Great Britain, France, and Germany. Objections that longer piers than those existing would narrow the width of the rive' dangerously will be overcome by cutting deeply into the land between Twenty-third and Twentyninth streets as far as Eleventh avenue.
The cost of acquiring the land from private owners, together with excavation and tho construction of the piers, will bo £5,000,000. The new 75,000-ton vessels to bo built by tho Cunard Company will bo some I,oooft long. The Majestic, at present the largest liner in the world, is 915 ft long
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Evening Star, Issue 20255, 16 August 1929, Page 9
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134PIERS FOR LINERS Evening Star, Issue 20255, 16 August 1929, Page 9
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