Word: inlets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Concrete Piles. At the Eastern Scheldt 72 caissons will be needed, and at the Brouwershavensche Gat, 32. The most challenging project is the three-mile-wide Haringvliet inlet, through which an estimated 50% of the combined waters of the Rhine and the Meuse pour out to the sea. The plan is to close Haringvliet with massive sluices anchored to the sea bot tom by 20,000 concrete piles. In the winter and spring, the 400-ton sluice gates will open to vomit out ice sweeping down the rivers...
...they thoroughly snarled Easter-weekend traffic as they made their annual trek 54 miles east to London, winding up for a 100,000-man rally beneath the stern statue of Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square. Last week the ban-the-bombers turned their attention to Holy Loch, a tiny inlet on Scotland's Firth of Clyde. The 18,500-ton tender Proteus was due to dock there and remain on permanent station to service the U.S. fleet of Polaris-bearing atomic submarines. More than 200 newsmen turned out expecting a lively demonstration...
ALASKAN OIL BOOM is promised by a new well brought in by Standard Oil Co. of California on Kenai Peninsula, 40 miles south of Anchorage. The discovery improves prospects for construction of a $4,000,000, 22-mile pipeline between the field and Cook Inlet, where the crude oil will be shipped to West Coast refineries...