Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subways and elevated structures because the 'Boston Transit Department built and owns them; the MTA pays the city of Boston over $2,000,000 yearly. The most flagrant inconsistency is that the MTA, though State owned must pay the State for the use of the Cambridge-Park Street tunnel...
...exploded like cannon and the fire spread to other trucks; soon tons of meat, eggs, gasoline, cleaning solvent and rags were flaming. River-hemmed Manhattan, which must pump its lifeblood of traffic through overtaxed and distended arteries, reacted like a great organism with a crippling blood clot. As the tunnel's twin tubes were closed, streams of traffic stagnated and honked around its approaches. Electrical cables in the tunnel burned through and the big city's communications began to fail-some radio programs were cut off, Teletypes stopped, 50% of New York's south-and westbound long...
Rubble & Risk. A frantic assault by healing antibodies began immediately. To save the tunnel-which had cost $50 million, 14 lives* and seven years' labor-firemen, tunnel workers, policemen and rescue squads fought into the tube at the height of the 4,000-degree fire. Dozens collapsed from smoke and choking gases...
Chemical drums went on exploding during the first night and sparks from bulldozer treads fired unburned pools of gasoline and chemicals, but ton after ton of tile, rock and wreckage was dragged out aboveground. The entire tunnel was reopened to traffic only 56 hours after the fire had begun. It would take a million dollars and months of night-time work before the Holland Tunnel was completely restored. But the great tunnel was still tight and safe-fireboats, cruising the Hudson above it, had seen no telltale bubbles of escaping...
...Among them was Clifford M. Holland, the tunnel project's chief engineer, who died of strain and overwork three years before the great bore was completed...