Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most appropriate spot for this year's convention-an engineering project of magnitude and importance second to none in the U. S. Last fortnight, under the granite groins of the Continental Divide, workmen blasted out the last headings in the main bore of the six-mile Moffat Tunnel which Colorado has been digging since 1923. Another eight weeks, officials predicted, and the first train would go through. The desirability of sending trains under rather than over the Continental Divide at that point was first discovered by a Denver banker, David Halliday Moffat, after he had spent a fortune building...
...Halle Annex, opened last week, is also a pioneering building. It faces two streets other than Euclid Ave., and connects to the main store by tunnel. Huron Road and Prospect Ave. in Cleveland have been streets of warehouses, Greek restaurants, hardware stores, down-payment jewelry shops, raggle-taggle merchandisers, etc. Samuel H. Halle will bring shoppers to these streets, will perhaps cause Cleveland to take on a more metropolitan aspect...
...University heating system is to be extended to greater parts of the University. Digging has begun in the Yard for the construction of a pipe tunnel ten feet square. Contrary to all appearances, the digging that is taking place near University and Thayer Hall, is not being done to make a base for a new drive...
...feet tunnel, connecting with the old one near Weld Hall, will run to and under Cambridge and Kirkland Streets, past the New Lecture Hall and the New Chemical Buildings and over to Langdell Hall. From there branch tunnels will lead to various other buildings in that vicinity...
...four and one third miles the Rove Tunnel, a canal 72 feet wide, 50 feet high, Cuts under the mountains of Nerthe from the port of Marseilles to the lake of Berre. Out of the mountains were hewn 2,500,000 cubic metres of dirt and rock to make a tube nearly three times as large as a two-track railway tunnel. It forms the most important link in a series of canals and dikes that will unite the Rhone River and Central France with Marseilles, buzzing port...