Word: tunnell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Public Works Administrator Ickes agreed to lend the Port of New York Authority $37,500,000 at 4% with which to drive a second automobile tunnel from Manhattan (West 39th Street) under the Hudson River to New Jersey (Wee-hawken). Work was to start in 60 days...
...once thought to prove that a land link between Europe and Africa existed as late as the Pleistocene period. But scientists grew doubtful when they could find no monkey fossils in Gibraltar's honeycomb of caves. Natives explained that easily: the apes had a secret sub-Mediterranean tunnel by which they returned to Africa to die. Scientists decided that the apes must have been imported by Romans or Moors...
...fact. Author James Branch Cabell says he cannot write unless e sits facing an open door. Many another person can testify that human beings do eel anything from a mild uneasiness to a frantic, sickening urge to escape when cooped up in a room, train, subway, elevator, cave, tunnel. Stirred by the Parker case, Britishers testified in letters to the London Times. Wrote Editor F. P. Carroll of The Hospital: "With a third-class purse, I have to travel first-class on the Southern Railway because otherwise I should be caught constantly in the middle of a closely-packed carriage...
...citizens where God put them, atop the earth. But Chicago has gone into the bowels of the earth for another convenience that these other cities lack- freight subways. Last week a group of Chicagoans invaded Washington seeking capital from the R. F. C. to add to Chicago's tunnel traffic a new and livelier commodity: steam. Chicago's freight tunnels, which most Chicagoans live and die without ever seeing, have little likeness to the passenger subways of other cities. They lie not just beneath the street but 40 feet below the surface. Driven through clay (bed rock...
Report had it that Chicago Tunnel Co. had bought a $700,000 site (at Randolph Street on the lake front) from the Illinois Central R. R., planned to build there a $7,000,000 steam plant. Messrs. Tracy and Mitchell rushed to Washington to negotiate with the R. F. C. for $4,000,000. If they get it, they plan to lay 24-in. steam pipes beside the tracks in their tunnel, sell steam to office buildings for heating, cooling systems...