Word: subterranean
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...auditorium, golf course and tennis court. Biggest problem of Beaufort civic leaders who met last week was to find a project for which WPA funds could be obtained in 1937. After gravely considering their problem they announced that they had agreed on this boondoggle: a bombproof, gas-proof subterranean chamber that will serve as a haven for the entire population if and when an enemy air fleet comes overhead intent on wiping Beaufort...
...started it down the tracks of an inclined shaft in which, at the end of its run, it fired the unmined coal. That fire, started on the property of Columbus' Hocking Coal & Mine Co., has burned on underground ever since. By last week it had burned a subterranean area of twelve square miles...
Some months ago WPA took cognizance of the subterranean inferno, not only because of the damage done but also in view of the job possibilities of a fire-control project. Mining engineers were convinced that the fire could be confined within its present limits, there to burn itself out eventually, by laying down massive barricades of non-inflammable material. WPA officials made plans to provide a year's work to 300 men, spend $360,000 of which New Straitsville would contribute some...
...Sept. 1 Toledo mobsters under orders from Madrid broke ground for subterranean mining of the Alcázar and talked of blowing it up with "20 tons of TNT." On Sept. 3 a lieutenant of the Red Militia, apparently in his cups and wearing a gaudy bathrobe, staggered toward the Alcázar shouting that he wanted to rescue a Red comrade who had fallen wounded just outside its walls. "All right!" called an Alcázar cadet, "Come and rescue him, so long as you leave us his gun." This bargain the bathrobed rescuer scrupulously kept. On Sept...
...this mix-up got under way, the shadowy dwellers of the underworld began to appear. Misshapen, grotesque, these subterranean beings range from a philosophic ink salesman to thieves, ham actors, pool sharks, narcotic addicts, bartenders, shyster lawyers, all alike in their casual disloyalty, bitter humor, and command of tough talk. Pete faces a villainous environment with all the breezy self-confidence of the hero of a James Cagney melodrama, eventually licks it. But readers are likely to find Author Mclntyre's picture of the Philadelphia underworld too one-sided to be credible, and Pete's final triumph...