Word: wildcats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wildcat--11 to 30, 6 powder, good...
...Hampshire--Franconia, Mt. Sunapee, Cranmore, and Wildcat. Vermont--Hogback, Smuggler's Notch, Big Bromley, Snow Valley, Jay Peak, Pico Peak, Stowe, Mad River Glen, Sugarbush, and Mt. Ascutney...
...Wildcat--11-22, packed powder, fair...
Pinkham Notch (Wildcat)--11-22, 4 powder, fair upper and lower, lifts operating...
Reaction to this latest Channel venture was mixed. "A wildcat scheme," cried Viscount Montgomery. Ignoring supersonic bombers and ICBMs, Britain's angry old field marshal added darkly that the tunnel would end "the inviolability of our island against the footsteps of an invader." To placate such critics, tunnel planners have included a dip at either end which could be flooded quickly to thwart invaders, pumped out later. The only cogent argument against construction of a tunnel, as the Times once commented, is that it would end the debate as to whether it ever was a good plan, "thus depriving...