Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train to a remote and unheard of village in the Pyrenees called Canfrane. There a shiny new electric locomotive was hitched to the special, drew it up a terrifically steep grade to an altitude of 3,600 feet, and stopped dead in the very midnight middle of the Samport Tunnel...
Kings and Dictators are never surprised. Neither would have turned a hair had they seen President Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic standing on the other side of the Franco-Spanish border, which bisects the Tunnel. Indeed they did see M. Le President standing there, plump and pink, and wearing a monocle, which he has recently and surprisingly adapted into his ensemble...
Soon the great Samport Tunnel, last and epochal link in the trans-Pyrenean railway was dedicated. The engineering feat can only be called epochal. For two milleniums and more, Emperors, Kings, men and freight have gone around the Pyrenees. Now at last the railroad has climbed and pierced through. Roadways wind interminably up the Pyrenees and over passes, none lower than 5,000 feet; but these trails are more fit for mountain goats than motorcycles and quite impracticable for the average motor car or truck. The late Emperor of the French, Napoleon...
...Wind tunnel: An elongated chamber (usually a tube) through which a steady air stream may be drawn or forced...
...estate is so magnificent that the Huttons use wiles to keep intruders out. A sentry guards the gate. Once a brazen rich woman whom Mrs. Hutton refused to receive applied for a maid's job in the mansion. As inept as indelicate, she was quickly discovered. A private tunnel runs from the Hutton grounds to the famed Bath and Tennis Club of Palm Beach. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hutton like to entertain. She likes costume balls, appears frequently as a blonde princess. Mr. Hutton, banker as well as chairman of the Postum Company, has one of his four investment...