Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this order from the Kremlin could check Moscow's subway planic. The original plan demanded that last week the first train should run over the first mile and a half of Moscow's subway, and run it did, through a chaos of unfinished stations and propped-up tunnel walls...
...project through the next two decades. As time passed there were the usual impatient charges of waste, incompetence, delay. Engineer O'Shaughnessy parried these thrusts with Irish eloquence, plodded on with his immense, laborious job-cutting miles of roads, laying miles of pipeline, boring miles of tunnels, pouring thousands of tons of concrete. Trouble piled on trouble. In the Coast Range tunnel ground swelled and shifted. There were quicksands and subterranean springs. Methane gas gathered. By this week cost of financing had mounted to $100,000,000. But at last Hetch Hetchy Water Supply System was ready to fulfill...
...outsmart his persecutors. Elissa Landi is Mercedes who, although forced into an unwelcome marriage when her lover goes to jail, remains sufficiently faithful, after her husband dies, to marry her inamorato when he returns. Good shot: the Abbe Faria (O. P. Heggie) suddenly poking his head through a tunnel and discovering Dantes' cell...
Beneath the Hudson River, one midnight, Patrolman Raymond L. Pine caught a sleek young pig trotting westward through the Holland Tunnel from Manhattan toward Jersey City...
Jokes touching any member of the Royal Family were abruptly and permanently barred by the British Broadcasting Corporation last week as postmen arrived with truckloads of protests against a quip broadcast from Leamington by Comedian Ernie Moss. Referring to the world's largest underwater tunnel, lately opened by His Majesty (TIME, July 30), shrill Mr. Moss chirped: "I was to have opened the Mersey Tunnel but the King charged a pound less, so I didn...