Word: tunnel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nuclear blasting. Engineers have long considered a connecting tunnel or canal between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. The water would drop 1,800 ft. below sea level from the Mediterranean, creating tremendous hydroelectric power, and the Dead Sea would obligingly evaporate it to keep the current running. While the U.S. is not yet formally prepared to furnish nuclear explosives, the Atomic Energy Commission has already tested them in an underground blast, might well lend help and supplies if asked. ¶ Desalting water. The U.S. Department of the Interior, eying a 597 billion-gal, daily consumption...
...most imaginative geniuses in the theatrical world today; in Touch, aided by Charlton Heston, he uses his unflagging gifts to produce a masterful film. In Cry, James Mason and Rod Steiger try to outwit each other, with climactic scenes in an elevator shaft and a subway tunnel...
Danny plays a master in a British public school who takes a holiday in Sussex to look for a lost Roman bronze. While he is tunneling away beneath an improbable-looking ruin, a traveling circus pitches tent in the vicinity, and where does Danny's tunnel end? Spang in the middle of the lion act. Danny survives the lion's den-only to be consumed with passion for the girl on the flying trapeze (Pier Angeli). But this is madness! He is already engaged to Miss Letitia Fairchild (Patricia Cutts), a powerful young woman who will stand...
...left the country's illiterate peasants and day laborers in hovels, he perched a luxury hotel, a glittering restaurant and an eye-popping skating rink on top of a mountain, connected them to Caracas and the sea with a soaring system of cable cars, then started boring a tunnel under the mountain. With such elaborate pump-priming to ensure economic wellbeing, he felt safe in crushing political independence. Who would want to pay the hard price of freedom so long as the government provided full employment and full bellies? Such glib judgments were proved hollow last week as Venezuelan...
...fellow, was against such a lawful process as electing authority. To show his contempt for law and order, he proposed that insignificant little Pinya be elected. They elected Pinya. Things went well, and they decided to escape. The Social Democrat had a good intellect; he made the plan to tunnel. The brawny anarchist did the digging. But they realized that the man to go first through the tunnel would be shot at by the guard. They all turned to the big, brave anarchist, but he was afraid to go. Suddenly, poor little Pinya drew himself up and said: 'Comrades...