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Deep under the dirty, swirling waters of the Detroit River, molelike workmen last week put finishing touches on a vehicular tunnel connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ont. To the ceremonious opening of the tunnel went Canada's Minister of the Interior Thomas Gerow Murphy, Ontario's Acting Premier George S. Henry, U. S. Minister to Canada Hanford MacNider, Michigan's Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenburg and its Governor, Fred Warren Green. In Washington President Hoover clicked his gold telegraph key to start the first speech...
...river-divided metropolis like Minneapolis & St. Paul, are chief ports-of-entry for large quantities of Canadian products into the U. S., for large U. S. shipments into Canada. The dividing river carries annually a cargo tonnage of approximately 100,000,000,* exclusive of liquor importation. Therefore the tunnel opening last week was a signal addition to U. S.-Canadian pleasure and commerce...
...wont, in the Coffee Shoppe of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. When he was finished he bought a cigar and a form sheet for that afternoon's horse races at Washington Park. Smoking and reading he walked toward the Illinois Central railroad station, entered the crowded pedestrian tunnel passing under Michigan Avenue. As he neared the tunnel's exit, another man stepped behind him, thrust a "belly-gun" (sawed-off revolver) close to the back of his head, fired a .38-calibre bullet through his brain. With the cigar still clenched in his teeth, the form sheet still clutched...
...midwestern are Ulen & Co. activities: Ulen engineers today are work ing upon three dams in Chile, a $23,000,000 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...
Jesse Baker Snow, engineer, assistant chief of construction and design of Manhattan's Holland Vehicular Tunnel Sc.D...