Word: underground
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Important discoveries have recently been made in the Engineering School laboratories relative to high voltage underground cables, which are the subject of a special study in cooperation with the National Electric Light Association, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the Association of Illuminating Companies...
...answer to this defiance the Presidium formally ousted M. Trotzky, explaining its action as follows: "The presidium deems Trotzky's and Vuyovitch's remaining in the Communist International impossible because of their violent struggle against the organization by means of underground printing plants coupled with organizing illegal centers and inciting malicious slander against Soviet Russia abroad. To preserve unity in Lenin ranks, to counteract the undermining activities of the oppositionist rebels, considering previous warnings sufficient and that to further refrain from disciplinary measures becomes dangerous and impossible, the presidium of the Communist International unanimously decided to expel Trotzky...
...laboratory will consist of two buildings, the larger facing on Oxford Street, and the smaller occupying the rest of the block behind it. These buildings will be connected by an underground passage covered by a one story corridor. Work on building A, the main structure facing on Oxford Street, has progressed to the second, and in some places third floor, while the walls of building B have as yet risen only to the first floor...
...Collins, Oklahoma oil operator who two months ago bravely set forth to persuade other case-hardened oil operators of his state to pinch down their oil production and thus conserve their underground pools for the future (TIME, May 23), last week gave up. He ceased arguing and appealed to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to invent some sort of rule to restrain the present overabundant production. There does exist an old Oklahoma law that may apply to the situation. But lawyers doubt its constitutionality. Meanwhile, Shell Union Oil Co., after spending $100,000 to drill a well down 6,000 feet...
...dishonorably discharged from the French Army. He goes to Brazilian diamond mines to forget. Through a second kick by Fortune, he is accused falsely of stealing jewels. After reels of strong, silent endurance, he saves the mine-owner's daughter from mud floods that trap them in an underground passageway...