Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly before 9 o'clock one morning last week, a 16-ton truck & trailer rig turned off a Jersey City street and rolled ponderously into the tube of the Holland Tunnel, bound for Manhattan. Nobody gave it a second glance-trucks, cars, cabs and buses had been rumbling through the tunnel, day & night, for 22 years (15.6 million passed through in 1948), and the rubber-tired monster looked as harmless and submissive as a sheep in a stockyard runway...
...fired unburned pools of gasoline and chemicals, but ton after ton of tile, rock and wreckage was dragged out aboveground. The entire tunnel was reopened to traffic only 56 hours after the fire had begun. It would take a million dollars and months of night-time work before the Holland Tunnel was completely restored. But the great tunnel was still tight and safe-fireboats, cruising the Hudson above it, had seen no telltale bubbles of escaping...
...Among them was Clifford M. Holland, the tunnel project's chief engineer, who died of strain and overwork three years before the great bore was completed...
...wartime hitch in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Sancton went back to the Gazette's staff in 1945 long enough to start a campaign to "bring over the war brides quicker." Soon after his own English war bride, Mary, joined him, Sancton heard that Octogenarian John C. Holland, owner and editor of the Stanstead Journal, was ailing and willing to sell his paper. Sancton quit his job and bought it for a few thousand dollars...
...earth's new-found neighbors are not the kind to attract attention to themselves. Dr. Luyten, Java-born and Holland-educated, discovered them only by comparing photographic plates made at the Harvard College Observatory's station in South Africa in 1930 with other plates made there in 1944. So shy and retiring are the twins that their light would have to be 100 times stronger than it is to be seen by the naked...