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Pneumatic drills are hammering at the foundation of Widener, as the Fuller Construction Company rushes completion of the Lamont-Widener book tunnel. The library, boasting solid concrete walls five thick, has been under fire for three weeks and is expected to hold out until vacation...
...drills, powered by the two compressed air machines that can be seen huffing and puffing near the tunnel excavation, are chipping a seven-foot square hole in the foundation wall. The tunnel, whose floor is about 15 feet underground, comes out of Widener, feints toward Wigglesworth and then veers sharply into the basement of Lamont...
...other tunnels are planned for construction when the ground has thawed. A steam tunnel will run from Wigglesworth along Lamont and under Quincy Street to the Union. The other, starting in Lamont, will lead to Houghton...
...will cover two city blocks (between 58th and 60th Streets, at Columbus Circle). It will provide Manhattan with 1) the world's biggest convention hall, and 2) parking space for 2,000 cars. To finance the building, New York City's Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority will sell $25 million in bonds. Madison Square Garden Corp. will operate it under a 35-year lease which guarantees New York City $1,000,000 a year in rent...
...engineers' remedy: stop the well digging and dig a tunnel through the mountains to bring water from Toluca's Lerma River for the soggy but thirsty capital...