Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more miles-from 72nd Street to the George Washington Bridge-of the peripheral express highway which will someday ring Manhattan, vastly relieve the pressure of internal and through motor traffic (see map). Open for business last week was another important gateway to the teeming city-the brand-new Lincoln Tunnel nosing under the Hudson River at the west end of 39th Street...
Similar in design to the Holland Tunnel -under the Hudson between lower Manhattan and Jersey City, completed in 1927 and this year used by 13,000,000 vehicles (at 50?& up)-the Lincoln Tunnel was started in 1934 and has cost about $43,000,000 to date. Unlike the two-tube Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel has completed so far only one 21-ft. 6-in. tube, now carrying two-way traffic. The other will be finished in 1941, when each tube will carry one-way traffic. The completed structure lies under 20 feet of silt, 75 feet below...
Visual defects in drivers, especially, are often corrected in this way. These who have accidents are often found to be suffering from "tunnel vision", which enables them to see only 40 or 50 degrees on each side of center...
When those suffering from "tunnel vision" know that they are handicapped, then they unconsciously keep more careful watch on each side when they are driving, the tests have found...
...diversion the delegates and their ladies attended a WPA play, excursioned to mountains, inspected the Moffat Tunnel. On Sunday many a Denver church had an A. F. of L. leader in the pulpit...