Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York and Jersey Cities formally opened the 9,250-ft. Holland vehicular tunnel connecting them under the Hudson River (TiME, Aug. 30, 1926). Aboard the yacht Mayflower, midstream in the Potomac, the President pressed the same gold telegraph key which President Wilson pressed in 1914 to blast open the Panama Canal. At the Coolidge touch, U. S. flags fell away from the ends of the Holland tubes. Officials of New Jersey streamed underground into New York and vice versa, followed in the first hour by 20,000 common citizens...
...presidential telegraphic instrument. He pressed, and a current of electricity flowed to Manhattan and directly across the Hudson river to Jersey City. At each place, in sight of thousands of crowding spectators, the current caused a pair of great U. S. flags slowly to separate. The Holland Vehicular Tunnel officially became open for inspection...
This project, like its sister scheme of a Franco-English tunnel under the Channel, has long been mooted. According to U. S. engineers, it would be "child's play" to build it, owing chiefly to favorable submarine conditions, cheap electrical power for boring and a plentiful supply of skilled labor...
According to King Alfonso, the proposed tunnel would cost around 250,000,000 pesetas ($48,250,000), which he declared to be a small amount compared to the advantages that Spain would reap from a commercial undersea road to Africa...
Among the thousands who poured into the Holland Tunnel on Saturday, anxious to pass under the Hudson River for the first time, none was so stirred at the romance of the accomplished feat as would have been another man who was not there. It was decreed that the body of Clifford Holland, who planned and supervised all of the work, should have arrived in New York City from a Michigan rest cure camp on the day that the last of the river bottom barrier separating east and west tunnels was blown apart. Thus was ended the career that began with...