Word: vehicular
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This last, the Clifford M. Holland Memorial Aid, in memory of the engineer of New York's vehicular tunnel, was awarded to Ralph W. Wilbur, of Melrose, Massachusetts...
...other vehicular tunnels are municipal or State projects. Unique, the Detroit &; Canada Tunnel Co. is a private concern. Boosting stock sales last week, its directors announced an investment of $25,000,000, anticipated earnings of some two million dollars a year...
Deep under the dirty, swirling waters of the Detroit River, molelike workmen last week put finishing touches on a vehicular tunnel connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ont. To the ceremonious opening of the tunnel went Canada's Minister of the Interior Thomas Gerow Murphy, Ontario's Acting Premier George S. Henry, U. S. Minister to Canada Hanford MacNider, Michigan's Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenburg and its Governor, Fred Warren Green. In Washington President Hoover clicked his gold telegraph key to start the first speech...
Engineers examined with interest the world's fifth great vehicular tunnel built since automobile exhaust gases presented ventilation problems. The other four: Holland Tunnel, joining Manhattan and Jersey City; Oakland Tube, connecting Oakland and Alameda, Calif.; Mersey River Tunnel, between Liverpool and Birkenhead, England; the Liberty Tubes, 5,800 ft. long, mountain tunnels, sole route from the South to Pittsburgh. Ancient sub-river vehicular tunnels without protection from motorgas exist at Glasgow and under the Elbe at Hamburg. Two old tunnels under the Thames at London have been equipped with suction-&-exhaust fans. First tunnel to require...
Jesse Baker Snow, engineer, assistant chief of construction and design of Manhattan's Holland Vehicular Tunnel Sc.D...