Word: underground
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Daggers flash in the dim light of Chinese opium dens, doors roll back at the touch of the villain's finger and the spectator is led through an amazing labyrinth of underground passages which lead to the apartments of the opium king of the Chinese underworld. The scenario is highly improbable throughout and in places is not even connected...
...things palls, so that it may not be for nothing that statistics have lately been applied to pedestrians waiting for traffic signals in Times Square in New York. It has been computed that 100,000 days are lost at that point every year, the suggested remedy being an underground passage between Times Square and the Grand Central Station...
...Aboard the yacht Mayflower, midstream in the Potomac, the President pressed the same gold telegraph key which President Wilson pressed in 1914 to blast open the Panama Canal. At the Coolidge touch, U. S. flags fell away from the ends of the Holland tubes. Officials of New Jersey streamed underground into New York and vice versa, followed in the first hour by 20,000 common citizens...
While these high voltage wires can be employed in the outskirts of a city, they are too dangerous and impractical for use in the city streets. The result has been an increasing employment of underground cables, but these are at present imperfectly developed, and involve difficulties when used for extremely high voltages...
...most serious problem connected with the underground transmission of a high voltage electric current is the deterioration of the insulating material, and this is the special study being made at the Engineering School...