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January 14, 1991

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a reporter at large

THE EIGHTH BRIDGE

Tom Buckley

REPORTER AT LARGE about Hell Gate Bridge which opened in 1917. It was the work of an engineer named Gustav Lindenthal who had built up a thriving practice …