Word: sands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through solid rock, shifting sand, sliding mud, two great shields are boring toward each other under the Hudson River. When they have come together there will be a new vehicular tunnel from Manhattan to New Jersey. The moment of their marriage is, for the engineers in charge, the zero hour. The latter will not know till then whether they have calculated perfectly this blind meeting underground or whether their plans have gone awry...
...will not be wrong by more than an inch. Each shield weighs 400 tons. The one from New Jersey has taken a snake-like course through mud, the one from Manhattan has had to eat through stone. They move in shoves of 2 1/2 ft.; and after each shove, "sand hogs" probe for obstructions with long iron bars. Manhattan skyscrapers are used as observation points on which the lines of progress are sighted. Completion of the tunnel is predicted for October...
...Foster, who began as an I. W. W., then went over to organized Labor, and finally deserted to Communism. Now he is head of the Workers' Party, the "overground" organization of the Communist Party which found it wise to "submerge" after one of its conventions, picturesquely staged amid Michigan sand dunes, had been raided and Foster, Ruthenberg and others arrested. There was Joseph Manley, son- in-law and arch-disciple of Foster. There was C. E. Ruthenberg who began as a Socialist, then found himself imprisoned as a criminal anarchist. In all, he has some nine arrests and three convictions...
...colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee reported a proposal by Senator Pepper for a much amended and reservationed World Court, Mr. Glass explained: "If I were disposed to treat such grave matters with levity, I would say that Senator Lodge had changed his tactics-heretofore he has been throwing sand in the eyes of the people, while now he is throwing Pepper...
...Grace de Grammont, in 1894, was Skinner's first success as his own manager. Then came the association with Charles Frohman and at last Kismet. A few more plays?The Honor of the Family, Mister Antonio, Blood and Sand ? and this story of nearly 50 years is done...