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In the Driftway
January 30, 1929 issue

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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.

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TUNNELING; UNDERGROUND construction; HYDRAULIC structures; GIBRALTAR, Strait of; ALGECIRAS (Spain); SPAIN
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