A BIG CONTRACT
A HUGE, JOB COMPLETED
[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] ~... 'this .Bar*. at B.3f> n.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 25. Paul Moranti, who put Wall Street on stilts and dug a• half mile ditch ■underthe financial district, is preparing to start a job of building a railway tunnel .from Spain to Morocco under appointment to the Span-*'-ish Government. He constructed a subway to link Brooklyn—Manhattan transit R y s tem. He was a year ahead-, of his schedule, in executing this job, whtici','experts said would be impossible, without. suspending the operations of the financial market. Moranti jacked up thirty-five skyscrapers, and shifted a solid maze of electricconduits, gas, water and steam pipes, and 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 twelve miles out at sea. Moranti fought every step of the way against dense traffic, and swarms of pedestrian/s in the narrow streets of the city.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1930, Page 5
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165A BIG CONTRACT Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1930, Page 5
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