Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly before 9 o'clock one morning last week, a 16-ton truck & trailer rig turned off a Jersey City street and rolled ponderously into the tube of the Holland Tunnel, bound for Manhattan. Nobody gave it a second glance-trucks, cars, cabs and buses had been rumbling through the tunnel, day & night, for 22 years (15.6 million passed through in 1948), and the rubber-tired monster looked as harmless and submissive as a sheep in a stockyard runway...
Race to Safety. As the flaming truck rolled, driverless, to a stop, scores of trucks and cars jammed up behind it. Coughing, half-blinded, their drivers and passengers got out and began running for safety; somehow, all got out alive. Within minutes the blocked section of tunnel, 18 ft. below the Hudson River's bed, was a roaring furnace...
When the body was located a grappling iron was lowered and hooked onto the ski clothing. Then ropes were tied around the legs and the body hauled out of the tunnel. A fresh crew was called in to carry the body down on a stretcher to Pinkham Notch, two miles distant...
...episode in the novel Rough Sketch by Robert Sylvester. It concerns the hard-jawed heroics of a young Cuban-American revolutionist (John Garfield), who recruits a handful of assistant revolutionaries, including a slant-eyed girl named China Valdes (Jennifer Jones). Garfield puts his crew to work digging a tunnel from the cellar of Jennifer's home to a nearby cemetery. His lurid plan: to blow the dictator and his cabinet to smithereens as they stand about the family tomb of a bigwig senator whom Garfield has already earmarked for assassination...
...convicted this was the triumphant climax of a career of 20 years. Whatever he felt in his innermost heart, like his father, he kept his own counsel. At each court day's end, he stepped along the marble corridor, hulking and heavy-footed, walking down his own dark tunnel...