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...Inch & Brothers. For long-term relief the hope lay in Big Inch and other lines like it. Big Inch, when finished, will be an engineering and construction monument. It will tunnel 1,400 miles under eight states and 20 rivers and surmount the rolling Alleghenies. Now building in the South is an extension of Big Inch's smaller (maximum 11 inch) brother, the Plantation Line, which by June will stretch from Baton Rouge to Richmond. Oilmen figure that still another such line would be needed if both war and civilian needs are to be fulfilled...
...study of level flight speeds of more than 450 miles per hour is the purpose of a new $2,100,000 wind tunnel now under construction at Pasadena by the California Institute of Technology. The tunnel was financed by four members of the Aircraft War Production Council: Consolidated, Douglas, Lockheed, North American. An identical air tunnel is being built by Curtiss-Wright at Buffalo...
...into the mining business through the front tunnel. Her father was a doctor who preferred mining to medicine, died leaving $23,000 debts and some dubious mining claims. So Dot went to work, first in a Seattle department store, then in San Francisco, then in Washington as a $30-a-week typist for the old NRA. In her spare time in the capitol she pawed through old mining records, finally traced her father's claims. That got her started. In no time at all she located most of his mines, ousted claim-jumpers, sold one mine to Baltimore...
Customers get free birthday cakes for parties (11,000 in 1940), lollypops, advice on personal problems, sherbet that comes out of a tunnel operated by an electric eye or flows like lava out of a volcano, leaflets of poesy & precept called Clinton's Food For Thot...
...capture the Yangtze Valley and conquer China by one blow. It was almost like coming home. Mountains gave way to hills and around about their bases lapped greyish yellow waters. The Yangtze is in flood and we are drawing near our target, I thought. I crawled through the tunnel under the pilot's seat and came out in the glassed bombardier's compartment. Butch Morgan sat in the very nose of the ship, peering down his bombsight. I sat in the seat directly behind him with my knees in his back, peering down below and watching the yellow...