Word: subterraneanly
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With the cards thus stacked in his favor last week, the Realmleader did nothing more provocative than continue to violate Articles 42 & 43 of Part III of the Treaty of Versailles by fortifying the German Rhine frontier with subterranean steel & concrete forts now being installed in the guise of "drainage systems" by German Army engineers and troops in civilian working clothes...
Last week two novels of coal-diggers' tragedies, one laid in England and one in Illinois, gave strong evidence of the fascination that the subterranean life exerts on the imaginations of men who spend their days above ground. Both books are packed with information on the technical details of coal mining, discussions of blackdamp, underground floods, explosions, entombments, but the picture that results is scarcely calculated to fill the patriots of either country with pride. The bitterness of Tom Tippett's account of Illinois disasters, in Horse Shoe Bottoms, is matched by the bitterness of Dr. Archibald Joseph Cronin...
...basin, is carbon dioxide, more than 99% pure and free of malodorous hydrogen sulphide. There is probably enough of this CO 2 under the basin to make a million tons of the popular, efficient refrigerant known as "dry-ice." Geologists believe that the supply is continuously renewed by subterranean chemical action. Owing to the high initial pressure, the manufacturing cost should not be more than $10 per ton as against a prevailing selling price...
...some of the ruins tumbling into the Copan River. At the invitation of the Honduras Government, a commission from the Carnegie Institution of Washington arrived last month to undertake restoration and protection. Behind a collapsed wall Head Commissioner Gustav Stromsvik was startled to find stone staircases leading down to subterranean galleries never before suspected. There were cruciform rooms with floors painted scarlet, amphitheatres containing monoliths and tinted statues with bead collars, canals and sewage systems connecting underground buildings. At the feet of a towering statue of a warrior, Mr. Stromsvik found a pair of exquisitely wrought boots of pure gold...
...Each is screened off by old forest growth or newly planted trees which will soon shut off the view. . . . The first and nearest to Berlin is that at Kladow. . . . The fact that several months of excavation preceded the above-ground work at Kladow seems to indicate the presence of subterranean networks [of aircraft storage space]. . . . The Kladow project covers perhaps four square miles...