Word: austine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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JOHN WlLDENTHAL JR. U.S.N.R. Austin...
...Littauer basement are the classrooms of the Naval Training School (Radar) which divides its time equally between Litauer and Austin. Also in the basement, and occupying part of the stacks of the library, is all Army Signal Corps group. The Army Civil Training Unit here had its headquarters in Littauer until transference to Widener last week...
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...fabulous Telluride-Ouray-Silverton mining district of Colorado's San Juan mountains, the world's fastest tunnel builder was hard a-boring once more last week. The man: 6-ft.-8-in. John Raymond Austin, 56, whose straggly grey hair and long, lined face give him the melancholy look of a bloodhound. The job: adding 6,200 ft. to an abandoned tunnel under La Plata divide, to make it possible to get zinc, lead and copper out of some lately unworked gold & silver mines...
Passion for Tunnels. Stoop-shouldered Long John Austin spent three years at the University of North Carolina's engineering school before skipping off to a Pittsburgh construction job. Within a year he was marked by his passion for tunnels. He built tunnels for railroads in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, then went to Canada as concrete boss of the famous $130,000,000 Welland Canal. There he acquired more know-how, and a small, vivacious wife named Helen Daniels...