Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans for the new structure are not yet far advanced as to details, except that there will be a tunnel through which the track straightaway will run. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, the University architects, will draw the plans for the new stands which will accommodate about the same number as the old wooden structure. Though no exact figures are available as to the cost of this improvement on Soldiers Field, it is understood that the sum will be in the vicinity of $175,000. When completed, the stands will be left in position permanently, or until such a time...
...view of the objections of the Corporation toward Mr. Bingham's suggestion, the construction of permanent steel stands at the open end of the Stadium is the most practical solution of the problem. The preservation of the straightaway track is insured by a tunnel under the stands. These seats are permanent inasmuch as they will remain intact as long as the Stadium itself is in a serviceable state of repair. At the end of that time, however, they may prove further usefulness by accommodating spectators at baseball games. But as long as they remain an integral part of the Stadium...
...conclusive are these figures to "an American" that, last week, potent H. Gordon Selfridge, U. S. founder-owner of London's first and greatest "department store," promptly ordered extra advertising space in leading English dailies, commenced to "boom" and "sell" the tunnel idea...
...Were startled by an astounding ambiguity let fall when the Prime Minister was intimating to the House that he favors the building of a railway tunnel under the British Channel (see International). The purport of easy-going Mr. Baldwin's care less remark was, in effect, that he would not be surprised if the forthcoming general election should sweep his party (Conservative) out of their present absolute majority control of Parliament. Said the Prime Minister: "In view of the time required to carry the project through all stages to the completion of the tunnel, the Government is convinced that...
Recalling that Leader of the Labor Party James Ramsay MacDonald had favored the tunnel when he was Prime Minister (1924), Mr. Baldwin added, even more explicitly...