Word: simplon
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...land-reclamation project in northern Greece, the construction of Persia's only trunk-line railroad, and the operation of Brazilian public utilities. Monumental Ulen works are the Shandaken Tunnel through the Catskills (longest - 18 mi. - - hydraulic tunnel in the world, five miles longer than the Swiss Simplon tunnel), finished in 1922, and the Marathon Dam, completed last fall, supplying water for the city of Athens, and overlooking the famed battlefield where the Greeks defeated the Persians in 490 B. C. The dam is faced with marble from Mt. Pentelicon (which also supplied the marble for the classic temples...
Engineers added additional facts. The longest vehicular tunnel in the world at the present time is the 12-mile Simplon tunnel in Switzerland. With its approaches, the Channel Tunnel would be nearer 40 than 20 miles long. It should take about eight years to build, would employ about 7,000 British workmen...