Word: causeway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WORLD'S LARGEST combination of bridge and tunnel (17.6 miles) will be built across Chesapeake Bay with $200 million revenue bond issue. Two tunnels, a bridge and 11.9 miles of causeway will link Cape Charles, Va. with Chesapeake Beach near Norfolk, pave way for a new coastal highway along the Virginia seacoast to provide most direct north-south route between New England and Florida...
...Cheerful communiques kept the people from knowing that the enemy was on top of them. Only by scanning the latest banking news ("The undermentioned branches will be closed until further notice") had some been able to follow the Japanese advance. With much fanfare, the retreating British blew up the causeway linking Singapore Island to the mainland. "That should stop the little bastards," muttered one officer, who neglected to notice, as the Japanese did not, that the water at low tide was only four feet deep...