Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the Committee of Imperial Defense was summoned at London to consider the building of a sub-Channel tunnel to connect Britain and France...
...result of the meeting was not made public, but it was understood that the high officers of the services were against building the tunnel because of the impossibility of defending it during time...
Although the existence of the tunnel would cut the cost of transportation to and from the Continent, and reduce the time taken to travel the distance between London and Paris, critics of the project averred...
...That the building of the tunnel would not appreciably help to reduce unemployment, because labor needed would be of a highly skilled character...
Brookwood Military Cemetery in London, where 428 U. S. soldiers lie buried, was officially handed over to the U. S. Government by its British owners. The Channel Tunnel question, recently revived, is shortly to be brought up in the House of Commons. The approximate cost of building the sub-channel tunnel from Dover to Calais was computed at about $130,000,000. Although Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes is to go to England this month in a strictly private capacity, as a guest of the English Bar, much political significance has been attached to his visit, which will coincide...