Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governors Smith of New York and Moore of New Jersey, "two outstanding Wets in a dry spot." They had on their tops hats and morning coats, for they were met- where a line of blue mosaic was worked in the tiled wall to mark midstream-in the Holland* vehicular tunnel connecting Broome St., Manhattan, and 14th St., Jersey City, to signalize its completion. Largest river tunnel in the world,* the 50-million-dollar Holland project consists of two tubes, each for one-way traffic, 9,250 ft. long, with room for two lanes of traffic abreast. The ceilings...
...Named for the late Engineer Clifford M. Holland who devised the system of fans that is guaranteed to keep the tubes freer of carbon monoxide than a car-crowded city street. *The next largest: Blackwell Tunnel, under the Thames in London; length...
...weeks ago, late one night, seven grimy miners toiled in the zinc-and spar-veined bowels of a mountain near Salem, Ky. With a surly roar, the wall of their tunnel collapsed behind them. Two men dashed for the shaft, shouting, "The cut's pullin', boys!" Another man, Roy James, could have escaped, but tore back the other way, through a foaming flood of subterranean water, to warn his comrades, George Castiller, Harry Watson, U. B. Wilson and Randolph Cobb. . . . Out in the shaft, Garth Heare, the mine's superintendent, labored night and day to drill through...
...platform at the base of gray rock bastions which tower above the track. Here the trains stop and the burlies yank their reluctant companions to their feet, shove them shuffling ahead to the end of the car and down the steps. The train pulls out through a short tunnel as the burlies usher their charges off the platform into Sing Sing, New York's famed state penitentiary...
...weighing 283,350 Ibs., is can be driven by one man and will hurtle along at 100 miles an hour with a loaded passenger train in tow. Soon it will be in service on the International Electric Line, racing over the Alps to Berne; plunging through the Simplon tunnel into Italy...