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...figured that the competition would help Broadway-Crenshaw get customers. His plan included a 10½-acre parking lot and an underground tunnel that keeps delivery trucks out of the way of customers' cars. A Los Angeles housewife who drives out to buy at Woolworth's or Owl is just as likely to drop into the Broadway store before she starts home...
Actual moving of the 75,000 volumes can be done in the space of a weekend, Metcalf stated. Widener will connect with the Lamont Library by tunnel, and a section in D stack next to the entrance is already set aside for books ready to go, Metcalf hopes that the lower sincks in Lamont will be ready before the upper portion is completed, so that moving can be staggered...
Most difficult problem facing the pumpers was draining two deep elevator pits, as three feet of water was estimated in the connecting tunnel with the Union building. Other effects on the construction site of the storm that blanketed New England yesterday were the post-ponement of scheduled concrete pouring and the weakening of the foundation...
...They had struck Chile's coal mines; he had expelled a Yugoslav diplomat on charges of pulling the strings (TIME, Oct. 20). And last week, when his troops were restoring order in the Lota coal fields, 2,000 Communist-dominated last-ditchers barricaded themselves in a mine tunnel and set off dynamite charges in front of advancing Chilean soldiers...
...been assigned to bomb a mountainside, so that rocks would fall and seal a railroad tunnel below. Over the target, a burst of flak knocked out one engine, then the other engine went out. When the order came to bail out, the tailgunner went out first, and got stuck in the escape hatch, pinned against the rear of it by the wind pressure. Chappuis kicked him in the only accessible place-his head -and knocked him loose. Then he jumped...