Show I Five Giant Fingers Bind Cities I The five giant spans of steel which like gargantuan fingers clutch the two sides of East river binding New York and DI Brooklyn together cost Americas America's Americas America's Ameri Ameri- cas ca's metropolis half as ns much as the Panama canal cost the federal government government govern govern- ment Three of them are suspended from cables the wires of which If placed end to end would more than twice girdle the earth If placed side sideby sideby b by side these five great structures would provide a roadway as wide as the Washington monument Is high and if f placed end to end they would make a great bridge over six sit miles long Across the Brooklyn bridge alone surface cars travel every 24 hours with other othel vehicular traffic In tion National National Geographic Magazine l |