SPIN YOUR GLOBE TO LONG ISLAND


Only Six States Have More People than the Insular Empire that Ranges from a World's Fair Through Potato Patches, Princely Estates, and Historic Shrines
By Frederick Simpich
With Illustrations from Photographs by Willard R. Culver
WHAT if a super-tugboat could cast a line about Long Island and haul it out to sea! Left exposed would be the broken ends of all the bridges and the under-river tunnels that now tie it to Manhattan.
Riding off on the runaway island would go more than 4-1/2 million people—but only if the start were made at night, for in the daytime a large share of these people work in New York.
Off on the floating island would also go about one-fourth of the sea trade of the whole United States, Uncle Sam's Brooklyn Navy Yard, radio towers from which he talks with 34 countries overseas, his busiest coffee and sugar mart, 3,454 trains that run daily between New York and the island, shops that make navigation instruments for the whole world, strategic airports and plane factories, millionaire estates, herds of polo ponies, Forest Hills' famous tennis courts, five million white ducks, to say nothing of Coney Island and other resorts where millions come to play, and a World's Fair!