Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watched his desk disappear under piles of paper, often had to whistle in the janitors to dredge his work out of the wastepaper. But somehow Allen got his job done, e.g., the laminar-flow air foil of the P-51 fighter of World War II, a supersonic freeflight wind tunnel in which a model plane is fired into a blast...
Jack Kennedy is the answer to slick Dick Nixon, who will almost certainly be the Republican candidate. It's only a matter of time now until Kennedy's enemies begin circulating the stories about building a tunnel to the Vatican or bringing the Pope to Washington, but Jack's religion makes no difference to me-he gets my vote...
...spot at which the ground was broken marked the probable center of a circular tunnel 236 feet in diameter which will house the major part of the accelerator, to be the largest of its type in the world on its completion early...
...front door, he is at the back quicker than the man inside can get there. If he finds both doors locked, he doesn't try to break the house down. He goes right on to the next house, and before you know it, he has dug a tunnel and got in through the basement...
...another career. In Paris, founder stockholders formally launched, the company into new business worlds as a French investment trust corporation. The Suez Canal Co. will invest $2,800,000 in French companies digging for oil in Algerian Sahara, and already owns a 30% chunk of the planned English Channel tunnel project. Other projects under consideration: oil ventures in Canada, iron deposits in North Africa...