Word: tunnels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfortunate that work on Massachusetts Hall goes no deeper than the foundations. If it did a strange tunnel might be exposed similar to several found beneath the streets of Washington. Just what the purpose of these mysterious passageways was nobody could tell; but everyone had his hypothesis. They were hiding places where German spies formulated their deadly schemes. They were avenues through which crafty bootleggers plied their trade...
Through solid rock, shifting sand, sliding mud, two great shields are boring toward each other under the Hudson River. When they have come together there will be a new vehicular tunnel from Manhattan to New Jersey. The moment of their marriage is, for the engineers in charge, the zero hour. The latter will not know till then whether they have calculated perfectly this blind meeting underground or whether their plans have gone awry...
...from Manhattan has had to eat through stone. They move in shoves of 2 1/2 ft.; and after each shove, "sand hogs" probe for obstructions with long iron bars. Manhattan skyscrapers are used as observation points on which the lines of progress are sighted. Completion of the tunnel is predicted for October...
...That the tunnel would cost about $130,000,000 and that its operation could never pay fixed charges and cost of maintenance...
...That a submarine tunnel, 30 miles in length, has never yet been built...