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Last week work got under way. WPA diggers attacked Plummer Hill with spades. Two steam shovels swung into action. Under the technical surveillance of the U. S. Bureau of Mines and Ohio State engineers, one 600-ft. tunnel barrier and two mile-long barricades, part tunnel and part opencut, will be laid down. Holes will be filled with sludge, shafts and cavities sealed to cut off air. Incidental coal dug out during the operations will be distributed gratis to those who need...
Professor Crew attacked the problem with direct simplicity. He made himself a sleeve from a length of automobile tire inner tube, in which he cut a square-inch aperture. Slipping his arm into the sleeve, Professor Crew thrust it into the 40 m.p.h. blast blown through a sunless wind-tunnel ordinarily used for testing model airplanes. During a half-hour exposure to the blast, the square-inch of bare skin "exhibited ''goose-flesh' but at no subsequent time was there the slightest evidence of reddening or chapping of the exposed area of skin," reported Professor Crew...
...last month seven trucks rumbling out of the Holland Tunnel into Manhattan were met by policemen and confiscated, their drivers hauled off to the New York County House of Detention. Next day two obscure Brooklyn coal dealers named Nowosatka and Slutzky were arraigned in Felony Court on a charge of receiving stolen property. Fortnight ago a grand jury indicted them for dealing in coal stolen from the Pennsylvania property of Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. and trucked into New York. The truck drivers were named as witnesses. Last week the grand jury followed up its indictment by recommending immediate...
With a wave of his straw hat, gracious, gangling Director George Harold Edgell, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts stepped into the gondola of a police motor-cycle at Cunard's Pier in East Boston last month and went popping through the Sumner Tunnel to Huntington Avenue and the Museum. Behind him in two bunting-draped trucks rumbled the most valuable collection of Japanese art ever to have left Japan. It was the nucleus of an exhibition which opened this week, and which should rival in importance London's great Chinese art exhibition of last winter...
...motive power he had short oars. A miner's lamp attached to his steel helmet, a searchlight on the boat's prow, an under water lamp hanging overside, all served by electric storage battery, were to supply light for close inspection of the tunnel walls. All electrical connections were shielded against sparking in the presence of sewer gas whose explosive power, Mr. Brown told reporters, was such that 36 cu. ft. of it was equal to one ton of dynamite. Last week Mr. Brown made a preliminary test of his equipment. He put on woolen basketball socks, sneakers...