New Tunnel Pushing Under Hudson Under Way
Frances Lewine reports from Weehawken New Jersey on the Port of New York Authority funding a 100 million dollar tunnel under the Hudson to link Manhattan and New Jersey. Construction uses a giant shield and 28 hydraulic jacks while workers brace the river mud. past underwater tubes and caisson disease hazards are noted with historical context and labor risks.
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Hudson
Port of
New York Authority
Hudson River
Lincoln Tunnel
New York City
New Jersey
Manhattan
Krow
New York
Hurson River
Port of New York Authority
New York-New Jersey
Thames
Murky river crawl ends in rescue and fate of a sandhog
An incident beneath the East River exposed a danger in excavation as a worker was trapped by mud and water during tube construction. Rescued by longshoremen, the report notes earlier breaches and the survival of Marshall Mabey, who later led tunnel crews before dying in 1950. The piece reflects on evolving safety methods since.
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Tsamhard Brunel
Thames River
Tai Brunel
de Witt Clinton Haskina
Hudson
Hudson River
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad
Lincoln Tunnel
Brooklyn-Battery
East River
New York
Plienix City
Ala
William Mason
St. Patrick's Catholic Church
Rooklyn
Rich Creenan
St. Patrick's Catholic Center
Creegan
Marshall Mabey
New York Times
Water
Mabey
Queens-Midtown
Brooklyn Battery
Not the Results That He Wanted
Van Nuys California police arrested 34 year old Jonn Warren after he reported that crooks had stolen his car. Warren sped to the station with his tale but was detained as the suspect in a forgery case involving 62 bad checks.
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van Nuys
Calif
Jonn
Warren
Wasted Energy By Richard M1
A fragmented report discusses fish breeding through hybridization to achieve desired traits such as net weight size and growth rate. The piece mentions researchers and a controversial method involving nitroglycerine, with references to Oklahoma State and Grand Island detours and a crossbred perch concept called the Who Family.
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Richard M1
Caldwell
Stillwater
Okla
NEA
LGS
Angeles
Oklahoma A
George Baton
Alen J.inder
Grand Island
Nevis
Baton
Sale
Slats Rogers To Get Ride In Jet Plane
LAREDO Texas AP Slats Rogers 67 year old barnstorming pilot will fly in a T33 jet at the local air force base Rogers who lives near Zapata wrote General Spicer inspector of flight training to request a jet ride He has flown every kind of plane since aviation began and hopes to steer a jet before his day ends with the air force planning to give him the chance Friday Dec 7
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Laredo
Texas
Rogers
H. IR. Spicer
U. S. Air Force
Laredo Air Force Base
Hogers
Zapata
Here
Spicer
Air Force
Two Rotorcycles Ordered Built for Use of Marines
Washington dispatch reports the navy will award contracts totaling about 200000 for two rotorcycles. The one man portable helicopters are designed for battlefield observation, liaison, escape and small unit maneuver with collapsible, quickly assembled frames. Firms Gyradyne and Ginter are among bidders, each to deliver flight-ready machines within a year using four cylinder gasoline engines.
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Washington
Marine Corps
Navy
Army Signal Corps
Una
Barmolive
Calif
Blame Tokyo taxi drivers for growing accident rate
James Cary reports Tokyo taxi drivers are blamed for rising road dangers as accident and fatality totals swell in major cities. Police note stubborn traffic patterns, with 20 thousand taxis in Tokyo and limited officer growth, while safety drives cut incidents and deaths modestly.
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Tokyo
Tokro
Crossing Fish Hybrids Could Forge New Breeding Era
E Linder advances four year doctoral work on cross breeding in perch species to produce hybrids with improved meat quality and quantity. He tests first generation hybrid viability in a lab aquarium and contemplates large panfish programs, envisioning new streams and as yet unnamed populations.
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E. Linder
Linder
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Frances Lewine
Weehawken
America
Harkins
E.W. Mott
Moir
Fort Authority
Holland Tunnel
Trantom
Clifford M. Holland
Iman
Holland
Vincent Mooney
Port Authority
16Th Ave
Bond
Voth Ave
Church
Jin
Loura Coran
Clearar
Mor
Merchants Bank
Agousticon
Allen
Marines
James Cary
Inokyo
Lay9 Moss
Yrom
Yokohama
Osaka
Bheatlin
Sheatler
Cray Sentinel
Vetland Statewmom
Admiral
Sraaglir
Ronson Essex
Ronson
Jevhay Mort
Cubs
Ronson Windsor Lovely
Indies
Second Ave
Second St. SE
Ar Et Merveaux Typewriter Exchange
Royal
Merveaux
3Rd Ave
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