Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...awakened, arrested and hustled away. At the same time, roadblocks, guarded by armored cars and Tommy-gun-waving soldiers, went up on the main roads from the town to U.N. installations outside. When a car with three Swedish soldiers tried to drive through one barrier at a strategic highway tunnel, the Katangese shot the driver in the stomach, then mowed down the other two after the vehicle crashed into a tree...
...helpful in human patients by 1) reducing shock, 2) preventing loss of fluids by oozing from wound or burn areas, 3) quickly creating a dry, germproof "shield" over the wound, and 4) avoiding bedsores. How well a human patient would take to living on an upended wind tunnel, he does not yet know...
...prospects for a tunnel grew brighter and brighter, French truckers became alarmed that the rail-only link might cut their earnings by forcing them to piggyback through the tunnel. Joined by British and French steelmakers, who stand to sell about 800,000 tons of steel if a bridge is built, the truckers set up a pro-bridge group headed by shrewd, forceful Jules Moch, last Interior Minister of France under the Fourth Republic...
...Great Debate. The relative merits of tunnel and bridge have plunged their proponents into a no-holds-barred debate. Either is technically feasible. Each would cut the cost of a Channel crossing from $32 for a car with three passengers to $22.50, reduce freight charges by 50%. Both would take about five years to build. The tunnel's main advantage is that at an estimated $364 million, it would cost only half as much as the bridge. Moch contends that a tunnel would induce claustrophobia and be a trap in case of an accident. But pro-tunnel people contend...
...current estimates are that there will be 11,400,000 in 1965. To handle this mounting load by present means, Britain alone would have to spend $56 million for new ferries, ports, planes and airfields in the next five years. By contrast, the proposed British contribution to a tunnel would be $73 million-and a tunnel would not wear out as do planes and ferries. And where a Channel bridge, because of its huge cost, would have to be subsidized by the British and French governments, a consortium of six international banks* is prepared to raise the entire cost...