Word: tunnell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secede from the Union, and issue currency. Secretary Dulles will coin a phrase, "passive retaliation," and President Eisenhower will express displeasure but will hope, over four networks, that it was just a mistake. Meanwhile, closer to home, Kirkland House will lose all 16 of its maids in a steam tunnel...
...Administration will be reflected in the new budget now being prepared. For the first time it will ask for a sizable chunk of money to finance new water projects. Among them: an irrigation plan for the upper Colorado River, and the Frying Pan-Arkansas project to bring water by tunnel from the Colorado River under the continental divide...
...Colorado Plateau may turn the nation's biggest gold producer into a uranium miner. Homestake Mining Co., which produced $18 million worth of gold last year and has spent $500,000 looking for uranium, has discovered a rich deposit at the end of a 3,200-ft. tunnel driven underground next to Millionaire Geologist Charles Steen's fabulous Mi Vida mine...
...President in early 1793. Long established as first in war biography, Historian Freeman marshals his facts as massively and meticulously as ever in his first study of the mature Washington in peacetime. Washington shines clearly in the hearts of his countrymen as he moves north through a veritable tunnel of rustic triumphal arches to take his first presidential oath at New York City's Federal Hall. By this time "the quenchless ambition of an ordered mind" disclosed in Freeman's portrait of the early years has mellowed to massive, benevolent prudence...
...Vancouver, Alcan harnessed a chain of mountain lakes and eastward-flowing rivers by throwing one of the world's biggest dams - a 317-ft. dike of rock and clay-across a canyon to create a great reservoir in the hills. Then Alcan drillers drove a ten-mile tunnel through the rock to sluice the water down the west side of the mountains. Falling 2,600 ft.-15 times the height of Niagara Falls-the water spins huge turbines in Alcan's underground powerhouse, and out of the powerhouse comes cheap, plentiful electricity, the indispensable requirement in the production...