Word: vehicular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...over the Hudson River about six miles north of Peekskill, between Anthony's Nose and Bear Mountain. With its approaches, it cost $6,000,000 and will be open after January as a toll bridge. Except for the railway bridge at Poughkeepsie, it is the only vehicular bridge across the Hudson south of Albany...
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...
...products of imperfect combustion in the cylinders of a gasoline engine is carbon monoxide, a gas toxic and often fatal-in sufficient concentration-to human beings. Engines running in closed garages have been the cause of a rapidly increasing death list in recent years. The building of large vehicular tunnels, which are difficult to ventilate, has multiplied the danger. Only a fortnight ago, in the new Liberty Tunnels, Pittsburgh (TIME, Feb. 4), many persons were overcome on account of the high concentration of CO attendant upon auto congestion in a streetcar strike. Last Summer, Dr. Yandell Henderson, Professor of Applied...