Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought of the wooden horse and convinced two others-Navigator Eric Williams and Squadron Leader Oliver Philpot-that it would work. For four torturous months, the three took turns in a sandy, almost airless pit in the center of the camp exercise ground, clawing, inch by inch, a tunnel toward freedom. Above them stood a homemade, hollow vaulting horse. Fellow prisoners dutifully toted it to the open ground every day (with one or two of the diggers inside), and vaulted over it in pretended gymnastics while the human moles worked beneath them...
...Later, Troy and a few good friends equipped themselves with work clothes, picks, shovels and roadblocks, spent an industrious evening digging a ten-foot hole in a midtown Manhattan street without being caught. Another time he attached an artificial hand to his sleeve, took a trip through the Holland Tunnel. After fastening his toll ticket between the plaster fingers, he whizzed by the collection station, left both ticket and hand in the grasp of a horrified attendant. In addition, he has diverted himself by planting fake pearls in oysters, coaching South Sea Island native youngsters in fantastic Troy-devised folk...
...ferry from Hälsingborg, got bogged down when a French gendarme sent them on a 30-kilometer detour. The Palermo starters, who ran into the toughest driving of all, had to ferry across the Strait of Messina and take a railroad flatcar ride through the Simplon Tunnel. They also hit fog at Florence and sleet at Milan. Though the Italians got a special dispensation to exceed the rally's maximum 65-kilometer-per-hour average speed (because of time lost at the Simplon Tunnel), they still had trouble with blinding snow along the French stretch from...
...wide tunnel will have four lanes and a 15-ft. ceiling, two feet higher than in New York's new Brooklyn-Battery tunnel. It will be more than -three times as long as the present longest highway tunnel, the 2.16-mile tube under the Mersey at Liverpool, England. A 9-ft. duct under the roadway will bring in fresh air, and a duct in the ceiling, with blowers, will take off carbon monoxide...
Fifteen-Minute Toll. To dig the tunnel, contractors will use a mammoth U.S. cutter which fits the tube, rides along on rails, permits 24 electric drills to work at once. Most of Mont Blanc is solid granite, and (with electric drills) this is to the good: in 1880 workers digging the St. Gotthard tunnel in a less solid mountain were killed by rock lapses...