Word: tunneling
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...French military bands blared out God Save the Queen and the Marseillaise. But nothing embodied the spirit of Franco-British cooperation more than a joint announcement by President Francois Mitterrand and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that their governments had approved the construction of a 31-mile-long rail tunnel linking the two countries. For nearly two centuries, rulers, entrepreneurs and engineers have dreamed of spanning the English Channel...
...Wednesday--Six months after its gala opening, the directors of the Sackler Museum announce that they have applied to the city for permission to build a connecting tunnel under Broadway between the Sackler and its mother museum, the Fogg. "We'd model it on the Paris metro system," says a spokesman for the two-toned tower. "Just like that movie, what was it called...
...1930s wind-tunnel shapes appeared everywhere. A gorgeous blue- lacquered maple desk (1933) designed by Paul Frankl avoided the cartoony extremes and actually evoked the future accurately; the piece might have been designed last week. Loewy's pencil sharpener (1934) is delightfully and uselessly aerodynamic, its barrel jutting forward at the angle of a poster- perfect Soviet worker marching into the future. Then there was Buck Rogers as penthouse playboy: Walter Dorwin Teague's lingerie-sexy blue glass radio (1936) and Ely Jacques Kahn's spherical aluminum ice bucket (1940), shiny and synthetically...
...late John "Muggsie" Kelly, the 59-year old general superintendant of the Perini Corporation, died on May 18, 1982, when a crane fell over and crushed the foreman while he was standing at the edge of a tunnel excavation...
Officials at Perini Corporation said they waited to dedicate the monument until the Red Line was completed, so the monument could be placed at the finished opening of the tunnel he worked...