Word: tunneling
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...Tunnel. Ley leads off with the tunnel under the English Channel. The first proposal (1802) was ahead of its time, but practical. Work began at both ends in about 1880. The English pilot tunnel (6,500 ft. long) had electric lights and hand-drawn cars in which Gladstone, Disraeli and Queen Victoria rode on sightseeing trips. Then the British War Office, aided by the London Times, killed the channel tunnel. England, they warned, would be an island no longer; some enemy might grab the tunnel and pour troops through it. By 1884 the British stopped digging, and nothing has been...
...fellow men and to keep an eye on his projects abroad, Builder Morrison took off on a five-week, world-girdling trip. His itinerary: Casablanca, to look over work on the North African air bases; Iraq, to bid on a dam project; Italy, to check on a tunnel through the Italian Alps. Many of Morrison's other jobs are in primitive, undeveloped countries, where MK's giant power shovels and 18-ton bulldozers are as much a source of wonder as the iron horse was to the Indians a century ago. In these countries, M-K has caused...
...suit his needs- Part of this change is due to the new machinery: the clanking bulldozers that knock down forests, the great draglines that claw house-sized holes at a single scoop, the cranes, jumbos, earth movers, power shovels, trenchers and dozens of other mechanical giants that lay pipelines, tunnel through mountains, and pour concrete for dams with the ease of a man putting down a sidewalk. But the biggest part of the change is the revolution in construction thinking; today, there is almost no project too big to tackle, no reasonable limit to reshaping the earth to make...
Last week in New Zealand, an M-K crew broke through the last rock barrier 14 months ahead of schedule to finish a great, 5½-mile railroad tunnel in the rugged Rimutaka Mountains. By M-K standards, it was a small-scale operation, costing only about $7,000,000. But on the record, it was one of the world's longest railroad tunnels and one of the greatest construction feats in New Zealand history...
...probably the biggest construction job ever attempted by private capital. To supply power for a new aluminum smelter, M-K had dammed a river to form a 120-mile-long reservoir, hollowed out a mountain to enclose a huge powerhouse five city blocks long, and drilled a ten-mile tunnel to carry the water to the turbines. At ultimate capacity, Alcan's powerhouse would be able to produce 1,671,000 kw., 34% more than Hoover Dam, enough electricity to match the combined output of such U.S. giants as Shasta, Bonneville and Wilson Dams...