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...North's best chances was lost at the battle of the Crater, outside Petersburg, the last defense post for Richmond. A bright young colonel on General Burnside's staff thought up the idea of digging a 500-ft. tunnel under the Confederates key redoubt, blowing it up and running a ground attack through the breach. The tunnel was dug, 320 kegs of powder were planted, and after a misfiring fuse was relit, the earth flew up, as one soldier wrote, like "a waterspout as seen at sea." A gap 500 yards wide opened in the Confederate line...
...Weak and exhausted after nine days jammed in open gondola cars, U.N. prisoners were herded off a prison train, 30 at a time, in Sunchon tunnel on Oct. 20, 1950. Communist soldiers escorted them down the,tracks, told them to hide in an erosion ditch while they waited for food. As soon as the prisoners had relaxed on the ground, the guards opened point-blank fire with burp guns and rifles. U.S. deaths: at least...
...Iranians: Britain's engineering firm of Sir Alexander Gibb and the U.S.'s Point Four Administration, which contributed $200,000 to complete the work in four years. Soon, Karun's waters will flow through the mountains along a 9,000-ft. tunnel and spill over the thirsty Isfahan valley, irrigating 150,000 acres, and making a prosperous farmland out of desert...
...victory, and he has communicated this to many of those who are counting on him. Said one of them last week: "A year ago none of us could see victory. There wasn't a prayer. Now we can see it clearly-like light at the end of a tunnel...
...Real-estate purchases, plutonium-producing atomic energy plants, construction of Government buildings and other similar investments should be organized as self-financing authorities, like municipal bridge and tunnel authorities, and raise money from private sources. Saving: $4 billion...