Word: tunnelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belgium, after watching miners struggling to push loaded coal cars over an uneven tunnel floor, a West Virginia mining engineer named Neil Robinson offered to slash production costs from $14 to $11 a ton-if given a free hand. The skeptical Belgians agreed; Robinson has since set to work injecting U.S. zest and know-how into one of Belgium's oldest and deepest pits-the Good Hope Mine. If he succeeds, and the chances are that he will, MSA hopes to use the "Robinson Experiment" to spark similar coalface production drives throughout Western Europe...
...Aluminum Co. of Canada launched its $550 million Kitimat project in British Columbia, the biggest single industrial enterprise in the country. Work moved at a 24-hour-a-day pace on a ten-mile water tunnel through the Rockies, a 280-foot power dam, and the world's biggest aluminum mill to open in 1954. ¶ Iron Ore Co. of Canada got well under way on 360 miles of track through the wilderness of northern Quebec to its $200 million iron ore project in Ungava. ¶ A record $250 million was invested in exploration and development of Alberta...
...before the explosion, it had been checked again and pronounced free of gas. The 218-man night shift, the last miners scheduled to work before Christmas, had gone underground in high spirits. But somehow, the dangerous, odorless methane gas had collected. At 7:30, its explosion turned miles of tunnel into wreckage...
...38th parallel, the party made shore under a covering barrage from the Bass and the U.S. destroyer Tingey. That part of the coast was well watched and well defended, and Colonel Grant's men ran into Red machine-gun fire. Nevertheless, they managed to blow up a tunnel before scrambling back to their boats. They left many Communist dead and their own casualties were light...
...last week. Proud members of an unofficial outfit sponsored by officers of the Royal Marine Forces, the youngsters were on their way to watch a boxing tournament in the camp of their Royal Navy counterparts. Marching crisply, they swung in a column three abreast along the narrow (27 ft.) tunnel of Dock Road...