Word: underground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gretna will rise three round units connected by an underground passage, each bounded by a 33 to 39 ft. reinforced concrete wall. One will house prison work shops, and probably a factory where inmates will make soap for 54 other State institutions. Another will contain recreation facilities and latrines. Centre circle-672 ft. across-will contain a hospital, an auditorium and six separate cell blocks, with accommodations for 592 prisoners, each in a private cell. The cells will be so arranged that any inmate who chisels his way out will find himself in either the next cell or a corridor...
...pilot did not know the power line was there. ... I was not informed last night of the new line being strung. This morning I was informed that the line was placed there to give service to a small area to the west which had been interrupted when an underground cable failed...
...canyon 200 ft. deep, its bottom crawling, heaving, puffing. It swiftly swallowed 20 acres of Robertson's farmland. Other fissures snaked across his property, threatened 80 acres more. Salmon Falls Creek ran yellow with volcanic dust and yellow puffs spurted from dry fields. Muffled thunder rose from underground, as though boulders were detaching themselves from the roof of a subterranean cavern and falling to the floor. The first canyon continued growing in the direction of the stream. If it reached there geologists expected to see the river disappear underground. They feared a sudden, widespread collapse which might engulf adjoining...
...Kahler Corp., of which Roy Watson, a hotel manager, is head and in which Harry Harwick, business manager of the Mayo Clinic, has a substantial interest. Some of the Kahler hotels have hospitals on the premises. Three hotels and three hospitals are connected with the Mayo Clinic by underground passageways...
...tall, beautiful brunette doctor named Lena Apostolova, who resisted all his efforts to thaw out her businesslike manner. The only time she showed any feeling was when she talked about the Macedonian question, or when she told him about her past, an incredible autobiography revolving around massacres, torture, rape, underground terrorist activity. During the last big French attack, Lena discharged De Queslain as cured, left him to make his way with the retreating Bulgarians. When they next met, Lena had joined a gang of Albanian pillagers about to attack the village, explaining that she had done so in order...