Word: moche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rail-only link might cut their earnings by forcing them to piggyback through the tunnel. Joined by British and French steelmakers, who stand to sell about 800,000 tons of steel if a bridge is built, the truckers set up a pro-bridge group headed by shrewd, forceful Jules Moch, last Interior Minister of France under the Fourth Republic...
Reviving a project drawn up in 1889, Moch's plan calls for a 2O.5-mile-long bridge, supported by 164 huge pilings, built straight from Cap Gris-Nez to South Foreland. A single railway would run along either side with a five-lane superhighway in between. Slung on girders over each side would be two lanes for bicycles and service vehicles. With a clearance of 164 ft., the bridge would be high enough at all points to allow most ships to pass under. It would rise at several points to a 230-ft. clearance to accommodate U.S. supercarriers...
...Channel crossing from $32 for a car with three passengers to $22.50, reduce freight charges by 50%. Both would take about five years to build. The tunnel's main advantage is that at an estimated $364 million, it would cost only half as much as the bridge. Moch contends that a tunnel would induce claustrophobia and be a trap in case of an accident. But pro-tunnel people contend that the bridge's numerous pilings would be a hazard to shipping and that the roadway would probably be impassable during...
...sparring went on hour after unfruitful hour. After one three-hour session, France's Moch declared: "Disarmament may be an immortal issue, but we are not; I am hungry...
...kind of partial agreement might be possible out of the com mon concern over nuclear destruction, and the awesome and imminent new methods of its delivery from the heights of outer space. "Not one, but a thousand swords of Damocles dangle over us," in toned France's Jules Moch gravely as the disarmament talks began...