TUNNEL PLAN.
SPAIN TO MOROCCO. New York Contractor Chosen for The Job. YANKEE "GO-GETTER." (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 25. Paul Moranti, who put Wall Street on stilts and dug a half-mile ditch under the financial district, is preparing to start the job of building a railway tunnel from Spain to. Morocco. He is under appointment to the Spanish Government. He constructed a, subway to link the Brooklyn-Manhattan transit system. He was a year ahead of schedule in executing this job, which experts said would be impossible without suspending' the operations of the financial market. Moranti jacked up 35 skyscrapers and shifted a solid maze of electric conduits, gas, water and steam pipes that passed by the most valuable network of cables in the world. • He removed a brick sewer, sank supports in quicksand, and dumped the excavated mud"l 2 miles out to sea. Moranti had to fight every step of the way against dense traffic and swarms of pedestrians in the narrowest streets of the city.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 228, 26 September 1930, Page 7
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