Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scheme is not new. Denver's hard-driving Robert S. Palmer, 41-year-old mining association secretary, has been urging it for years. But the cost was only one barrier. The tunnel would interlace through 600 miles of underground workings, involving 2,000 patented claims, with heirs spread from Atlanta to China. RFC took one look at the legal snares, refused funds. Then the Bureau of Mines, anxious to increase zinc production, took an interest. (Zinc is used in brass cartridges; every big bomber carries 500 pounds of it.) As a war measure, Congress last spring gave Ickes...
Landslides, mud, dust often wiped out the engineers' work as fast as they finished it. Asked about progress, Colonel Charles Gleim, formerly construction engineer of the Lincoln Tunnel, commander of the advanced engineers, answered: "Doing great. Only lost half a mile this month." Bulldozers, trucks, tractors slid or were knocked over mountainsides in drops of hundreds, sometimes thousands of feet. One 'dozer operator ducked as a clod of dirt hit his head, looked up and saw a whole mountaintop coming down on him. He jumped clear. His bulldozer was buried. To exhume it the engineers had to blast...
Berlin crouched, waiting the attack which had long been promised. In darkened restaurants along the Kurfürstendamm, Berliners listened to the stories and dreadful rumors from Hamburg-200,000 dead, the tunnel under the Elbe River cracked open, and 18,000 drowned; Hamburg all but obliterated. The cautious camped near the Zoo against emergency bunkers, slept in air-raid shelters. The terrified left the city for its safer fringes...
...bathtubs? Did Dr. Johnson ever use a flush toilet or have any idea of a sanitary latrine? Did Charles Dickens ever hear a radio? Did Goethe ever handle a camera? . . . Did Charles Lamb ever see Ginger Rogers or use a plastic toothbrush? Did Wordsworth ever cross in the Hudson Tunnel or drive on the Merritt Parkway? . . . Why must we be the mirror to the universe? Where are the standards? The invalid assumptions must fall away, and some common standard for all humanity must be rediscovered...
...Warren's many fireplaces are in the least alike. Warren's taste for the unusual is also shown in the trap door which leads to a blank tunnel beneath the second floor, the secret stairway which is shown on the House blueprints but which is as yet undiscovered, the bedroom, in which the master's bed is separated from the remainder of the room by a sliding wall, and the peep-holes above the stairway on the second floor from which he could decide whether or not to admit guests...