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Show Sandhogs Drive Giant Tunnel Forward Workers Thrust Motor Traffic Tube Ahead Here Is a scene MO feet below the bottom of the Hudson river, and 1 70 feet out from tlie Woehawkon shore line, as engineers ami sand hogs, working under Ki pounds of ail pressure, thrust the giant tunnel tun-nel toward Manhattan, at a rate of 30 Inches at a time. This tunnel Is meant for Interstate motor traffic and will aid In solving the metropolis' metrop-olis' Increasingly serious tratlic puzzles. puz-zles. New York city alone In lor-,3 had G-!.'!.r):i-l cars, more than IOS.000 trucks and 27.S01 taxis and buses registered. The increasing problem of handling the vast volume of traffic traf-fic between the city and the New .iersoy side prompted construction of the tunnel shown above. |