Word: tunnels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tunnel Through to Street...
Wednesday, August 12--Via St. Gotthard Tunnel to Lucerne and continue via Brunig Pass to Interlaken...
...vote of the New York State and New Jersey Tunnel Commission the Hudson River vehicular tunnel, holed through on October 29, has been named the "Holland Tunnel" in memory of Clifford Milburn Holland '06, who was chief engineer in charge of the project...
Died. Clifford Milburn Holland, 41, chief engineer of a new vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River at Manhattan; in Battle Creek, Michigan, of heart disease. A day or twoafter his death, a charge of dynamite "holed through" connecting the two ends of the tunnel driven from opposite sides of the river and disclosed them only three-quarters of an inch out of direct line with each other...
Last week, a Mainz-Mannheim express steamed out of Mainz station and a few minutes later, in a tunnel, a local train crashed into it, "turning the tunnel into a smoky, gas-filled hell...