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The article focuses on the construction of the new plant of the arm manufacturer Smith and Wesson Inc in Springfield, Massachusetts. It highlights the putting of tunnels, and chambers beneath the plant, to house production in case of an unexpected war. It states that the idea of putting up tunnels and chambers beneath the plant is through the effort of the company's president Carl R. Hellstrom, specifically for the purpose of increasing the company's production.

The article discusses the increased use of dynamite for industrial applications in the U.S. in the 1920s. Topics addressed include the number of ditches blasted out with explosives, the economy of using dynamite for certain kinds of ditch digging, and agricultural applications in the South to save crops threatened with destruction by heavy rains. The quick construction of water and railroad tunnels using dynamite and the use of explosives in the discovery of oil wells are also mentioned.

The article focuses on the economic significance of the Moffat tunnel which is being constructed in Denver, Colorado. Minerals and hydrocarbons that may be tapped through this tunnel include iron, zinc, and ozerkerite. Transcontinental railroads found in the region between the western corner of Colorado and the eastern part of Utah are the Union Pacific and the Denver & Rio Grande Western. This tunnel is expected to allow the distribution of oil extracted from the oil shale of the Uinta basin.

Hong Kong, China is now enjoying an economic boom and Great Britain is confident enough in its future stability to have guaranteed credit for a cross-harbor tunnel linking the island for which the colony is named with the Kowloon peninsula. Another multimillion-dollar expansion project for which local developers are trying to get funds is the extension of the airport runway to handle the jumbo jet. But Hong Kong depends also on the People's Republic of China for half of its foodstuffs, much of its clothing and household staples, and part of its critical water supply. Reciprocally, Chinese goods are sold at rock-bottom prices in the Hong Kong.

Offers author's experience in Moscow. Excitement over the new subway in Moscow; Comparison of this subway with the subways in other countries; Discussion about an air meet that took place on the outskirts of Moscow; Relationship between the police and the public; Experience of espionage in Soviet Union; Surprise over the findings regarding the craze in Russians to go to the U.S.; Focus on the culture and life style in Moscow; Progress of capitalism and communism.

The article presents information about some recent books. "The Mayflower and Her Log," by Azel Ames and "Content in a Garden," by Candace Wheeler are among the latest announcements of Houghton, Muffin & Co. The book "A Practical Treatise of Tunneling," is written by Charles Prelini. The book gives a clear exposition of modern methods of tunnel construction in both Europe and the U.S. The typography of the book deserves special mention as being far superior to that of most American technical books.

The article relates how Barney Hnat risks the horrors of cave-ins and blowouts as a sand-hog foreman in New York. It describes the day-to-day activities of Hnat, and the challenges and risks that he has to confront in his job. It also depicts the working conditions of Hnat and other compressed-air workers in the Lincoln Tunnel.

Discusses the construction of the longest underground highway from Rome to London in Europe. Value of the underground highway; Materials used for the construction; Features of the underground highway.

The article presents information on Camp Century, a vital defense base buried within the Greenland icecap. Captain Thomas C. Evans of the United Slates Army is the commanding officer of Camp Century, the most extraordinary military base in the world. Some 138 miles east of the sprawling American air base at Thule, Evans's command consists of twenty-one incredible tunnels--including a paved main street 1100 feet long, twenty-six feet wide and twenty-eight feet high--that conceal twenty-eight prefabricated plywood buildings. A portable nuclear reactor is now being installed to generate electricity to light, warm and power the strange outpost.

Features the sandhogs who build the East River tunnels for the New York City's subway system. Details of the subhuman working conditions in the construction of such tunnel networks; Tips and advisories in tunneling; Views on the career growth of a sandhog; Insights of the author on the hazards in working underground.

The article presents the short story "The Foundation Job," by A.W. Somerville.

This article highlights the construction of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel in New York City. The construction of the tunnel, which is worth $80,000,000, took almost twenty years as it began in 1941 and because of the war, work was suspended and resumed in late 1945. The tunnel, which consists twin tubes, starts under the Battery Park, Manhattan and run to Brooklyn. The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is considered as the deepest and longest vehicular tunnel in the Western Hemisphere.

The article talks about the La Defense, the first subway station in Paris, France. The Defense subway station is making a kind of history in municipal construction. It took four years to dig the new Metro tunnel and build the Defense station. The style of subway station can be summed up as Fifth Republic.

The article focuses on the construction process of the Richmond Tunnel in Upper New York Bay. Feasibility studies were conducted by the New York Board of Water Supply by making 44 test borings of the bedrock beneath the Upper Bay. It was done from platforms on stilts and core samples were taken at various depths. To keep shaft hole from flooding, the construction staff had to surround the site with four wells, which are sunk to the top of the bedrock.

Focuses on the tunnel system in Manchuria, China. Benefits of the tunnel system during air raids; Features of the tunnel system; Reasons behind the construction of the tunnel system.

The article presents suggestions from several manufacturers in Cincinnati, Ohio on the use of an idle underground road which used to be the bed of the Miami and Erie Canal and will be utilized for tunnel rail services and would benefit companies like Red Top Brewing Co., Burger Brewing Co. and MacGregor Goldsmith, Inc.

The article discusses the plan of the U.S. to create local agencies similar the Air Raid Precautions (ARP) of Great Britain as a way to protect factories from aerial attacks. It tells that results of federal studies related to factory protection will be released via the said agencies. It tackles the various researches related to factory security such as one on the construction of underground shelters for the workmen. It adds that recommendations for costly protective measures are not expected.

The article focuses on the new filtration plant built in Chicago, Illinois in 1964. Valued at 108 million U.S. dollars, the water works and its glass and brick look like a modern corporate headquarters. A peninsula was built by contractors involved in the project and clay chunks and large stones were dropped into place to form the coffer dam. Tunnels were also developed to bring lake water to the plant. It took two and a half years to complete concrete settling basins along two sides of the plant. Details about chemical treatment on the plant are given.

The article focuses on the construction of North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), a defensive command where part of the U.S. communication system is headquartered, inside the tunnels of Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado. It states that NORAD underground complex will be shielded by 1,400 ft. of solid granite and basalt. It mentions that the completion of NORAD underground complex,the communications system that connects the U.S. and other command posts will be duplicated and triplicated.

In the U.S. the street railway companies have generally milked their business about dry, and are therefore arriving at the stage where they are willing to sell to municipalities, at a tidy figure, accumulated problems of mismanagement together with depreciated tracks and rolling stock. According to London correspondence of the "Sun," the passenger packer of the New York subways has arrived in the tubes of the British capital. The crowds have become so unwieldy recently that at important stations men are now employed to clear and load the cars as quickly as possible.

The article reports on the completion of most of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's (AEC) work on the construction of underground facilities in 1961 in Yucca Flats, Nevada and the controversy surrounding how atom tests will start. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy decides to resume nuclear testing on two series of tests. However, diplomatic advisers of Kennedy believe that the tests will result in a political furor in countries worldwide including India, Great Britain, and Scandinavia.

Focuses on the industrial tragedy associated with the construction of a water-power tunnel at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, by New-Kanawha Power Co. Outbreak of silicosis during the construction; Disregard of the most elementary health and safety precautions by the construction contractors; Description of the working conditions at the construction site; Consequences of the ignorance of the wet drilling method; Estimation of the number of causalities that took place.

Considerable excitement is prevailing in Italy, in consequence of the military engineering works undertaken by the French Government at the opening of the Mont-Cenis tunnel near Modane. To the eyes of the Italians, the mines digged there by the engineers of the French army were looked upon not only as a symptom of distrust, which was disagreeable to them, but also as an eventuality that the costly work, one of which Italy in particular, has a right to be most proud, would, if ever it came to a war between the two countries, be in great part destroyed, and at any rate put out of service for some time to come, whilst the digging of the ground was going on. There can be no doubt whatever that France has a full right to take all such military precautions as she may think necessary on her side, and the Italians, who themselves commenced constructing new fortifications along the Alps and the Mediterranean as early as the winter of 1870-71, are the last who ought to complain of any such. proceeding.

The article focuses on the participation of poet Marianne Moore in a press conference organized by the Save Central Park Committee on the preservation of the Central Park in New York City held at the Barbizon-Plaza Hotel in March 1969. The committee opposed the construction of an underground complex for the Police Department. Other conservation groups at the conference are the Citizens Union and the Linnaean Society. Attorney Robert Makla criticizes the reason for proposing the structure.

The article focuses on the money pit maze of flooded tunnels on Oak Island, Nova Scotia that was discovered in 1795 and a number of amateur treasure hunters who have tried digging holes to find the treasures that are said to have hidden underground. It discusses the millions of money invested by those who tried to find the treasure but failed and a story told by Montreal, Quebec-based packaging manufacturer David Tobias that the money pit is like a Swiss bank during the time it was made.

Two photographs showing an underground architecture which is the entrance to a hotel in Stuttgart, Germany and the corridors of the hotel are presented.

The article talks about another problem with removing 300 bomb-proof shelters that were constructed by Lockheed in Burbank, California in 1942.

The article focuses on economic feasibility of building underground and airplane plants and hangars in the U.S.

The article reports on the plan to build underground schools in Artesia, New Mexico. Architect Frank Standhardt says that underground school is the first of such nuclear age school in the U.S. and adds that it would cost 10 percent more than a building above ground. It notes that the school will also function as a shelter.

The article reports on the plan to construct a sub-Channel tunnel to connect Great Britain and France with an aim to facilitate travel between the two countries. It claims that preliminary drillings of the tunnel was started in the 1890s. The latest proposals from the Channel Committee as of June 1930 are also cited, including the best suitable location at the Dover to Calais area. The funding for the project will be arranged by the British Channel Tunnel Co. and a similar firm in France.

A commission of engineers is now in Algeciras studying the project of a tunnel under the Straits of Gibraltar, a project which has been the dream of King Alfonso for many years. The tunnel, according to one plan, will begin near the Bay of Vaquero, west of Algeciras, and end in Tangier, a distance of twenty miles, at a maximum depth of 1,000 feet. When it is finished, the journey from Europe to South America will be reduced to six days, and the worlds between Cape Town and Paris can be strung on a single thread of steel. So science shrivels the world with speed. But the Drifter, old fogy that he is, prefers speed in the abstract to its reality.

The article presents information on the plans of underground freight line in Chicago, Illinois to offer storedoor pickup and delivery service for Loop.

The article reports on an experiment by Los Angeles County, California which involves the construction of an underground dam made of water. The aim of the project is to keep the sea from infiltrating the deep wells that supply water for half a million people. The project is advocated by water engineer Oswald A. Gierlich. The project was approved by the county's Flood Control District after years of study.

The article information on Abo Public Elementary School in New Mexico which lies entirely underground and which doubles as a fully equipped fallout shelter. Abo opened for the first time last fall, with some 460 pupils. The experiment has attracted considerable interest among both schoolmen and civil-defense officials around the country. Some educators have condemned the whole idea out of hand. Others have adopted a wait-and-see attitude. They feel that, taken simply as a teaching plant, Abo deserves high marks for efficiency and interior beauty.

Reports that the Channel tunnel connecting Great Britain and France is delayed. Significance of the tunnel even though it does not exist; Opinion that the tunnel forces Britain and France into periodic re-evaluations of each other; Fact that the British have long been fearful of linking up with the continent.