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Engineers examined with interest the world's fifth great vehicular tunnel built since automobile exhaust gases presented ventilation problems. The other four: Holland Tunnel, joining Manhattan and Jersey City; Oakland Tube, connecting Oakland and Alameda, Calif.; Mersey River Tunnel, between Liverpool and Birkenhead, England; the Liberty Tubes, 5,800 ft. long, mountain tunnels, sole route from the South to Pittsburgh. Ancient sub-river vehicular tunnels without protection from motorgas exist at Glasgow and under the Elbe at Hamburg. Two old tunnels under the Thames at London have been equipped with suction-&-exhaust fans. First tunnel to require...
...English," the master shipper of Liverpool, has grown old and his power is slipping from him. He is, as a rival so aptly says, with "one foot in bankruptcy, the other in the grave." Yet he struggles to dominate his opponents, to maintain his independence, and to provide for the heirs who are the remnant of an ill-spent youth. It is this struggle that the actor portrays with his usual appreciation and subtlety. "Old English" dies in the end, the victim of his own will, and it is here that the movie falters dangerously. An obsequy held over...
...East Liverpool, Ohio, the City Council announced that any Pennsylvania R. R. engineman driving a train faster than 15 m.p.h. through the town would be arrested. Citizens had complained of 100-car trains speeding through the town at 50 to 60 m.p.h. "with unnecessary use of whistles . . . belching of smoke...
...Liverpool where I was bred, A long, long time ago, They taught me how to heave the lead...
...Author. John Masefield was a poor boy, is not a rich man. Born in Liverpool, he went to sea at 14. As every Masefield devotee knows, he once worked as handyman in a New York bar. But for 25 years he has been a teetotaller, liking the looks but not the taste of wine. He lives with his wife and daughter on Boar's Hill, five miles from Oxford, where his melancholy mien and rusty, plunging gait are a perennial peripatetic phenomenon. He founded the amateur Boar's Hill Players, who acted now Shakespeare, now Masefield; he himself...