Word: tunnelling
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...week Britain ceased % to be an island for the first time since the end of the last Ice Age, when meltwater covered the land bridge joining the British Isles to the mainland. On Oct. 30 a team of workers at the face of the French section of the service tunnel that is being bored 131 ft. below the bed of the Channel waited for a thin steel probe, drilled from the British side, to pierce the wall of chalk marl in front of them. The 2-in.-diameter aperture opened by the probe could not be seen at first...
...probe breakthrough confirmed that French and British tunnelers were within striking distance of completing the first tunnel under the English Channel. Measurements taken through the probe hole showed the two approaches were out of line by a horizontal distance of only 20 in. after huge boring machines had chewed their way through 24 miles of undersea chalk. Said a spokesman for TransManche Link, the Anglo-French consortium responsible for design and construction: "It was like throwing out a line to the moon and getting within a 10-ft. circle." The remaining 325 or so feet of chalk separating...
...breakthrough confirmed that Britain is destined to become a more integral part of the Continent. The tunnel, commonly called the Chunnel, is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 1993, in time to benefit from the 12-nation European Community's plans to dismantle all internal barriers to the movement of goods, services and people...
...city has stopped large projects before," said Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55. "You are coming to us with a tunnel in Charlestown and other parts of the project you have started and basically you are saying that all we can do is accept scheme...
Richard McKinnon of Congress Group Ventures, which is building a hotel and housing complex in the North Point region of East Cambridge, said that the tunnel alternative would destroy his plans to redevelop the economically stagnant neighborhood...