From the November 7, 1931, issue

HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE RIVALED FOR FAME BY NEW ARCHES

While the completion of the great George Washington suspension bridge, which has hurled itself in one bold leap across 3,500 feet of the Hudson River from Manhattan to the New Jersey shore, is being celebrated, two other bridges, likewise the largest in the world of their kind, are being given finishing touches preparatory to their christening in the mighty stream of modern traffic.