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...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...
...work two shifts a day hauling out debris in baskets made of old auto tires. In short order they had dug past the well's first stage-a broad shaft cut out of limestone 33 ft. deep, faced with a spiral staircase. Then the diggers excavated a narrower tunnel with steps cut in its side to reach a broad water-drawing room 82 ft. below the surface...
...chiefly concerned with the Crop-leighs, who move through the wilderness like giants and mostly come to ends both brobdingnagian and foul. The first Cropleighs are blown sky-high in a steamboat explosion; of their four sons, Beverly and Duncan are blown earth-deep in a tunnel explosion (fratricide and suicide), Dickie loses a leg in the same disaster, and garrulous Jack is killed by a bullet aimed at still another Cropleigh. Daughter Julia causes much of the trouble by giving birth to a baby whose father might be her brother Duncan, her lover Pete Legrand, or even possibly...