Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Workmen rolled tubs full of pink and blue hydrangeas into the tunnel-like entrance of Burlington House early one morning last week in token that London's Social Season was about to begin. It is an ancient immutable law that The Season (when George is in his Palace and debutantes are presented at Court) starts on the first Friday in May with the Private View of the Royal Academy. The Season ends on the loth and nth of July with the Eton-Harrow cricket match at Lord...
...sunny afternoon of last June 9, the crowd which swarmed and eddied in & out of the tunnel leading from Chicago's Michigan Boulevard and Randolph Street to the Illinois Central suburban depot, represented a fair cross-section of the human currents passing through any great city...
Among those passing through the tunnel were: a priest from Notre Dame University on his way to a dentist appointment: a horsey Kentuckian on his way to a race track; an unemployed plumber; a railway switchman; the wife of a packing company official come to town to do some shopping. And, about to take a train to Washington Park race course was Alfred ("Jake") Lingle. "leg man" (newsgatherer but not writer) for the Chicago Tribune, a newspaper man with racketeering side interests. Just after he bought a newspaper and entered the tunnel, some one in the human current moved...
...accused of the Lingle murder. Reputed already to have cost $150,000 for investigations, it was one of the few famed gang murders ever to go so far as actual trial in Chicago. Defense and prosecution both produced human molecules from the stream that had been flowing through the tunnel last June 9, to try to reproduce pictures of what had happened...
Against fire, flood and floating ice; against rain, wind, tidal waves and meteorites; against explosions, collisions, sabotage, strikes, war, anarchy, Acts of God and complete collapse, the Port of New York Authority last week insured its vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River and its nearly completed bridge over the same stream. The $55,000,000 policy, the largest of its kind ever taken out in New York State, was split among 30 companies. As unusual as the size was the rate: 16? per $100. On most transportational structures, premiums range between...