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The Builder of World’s ‘Eighth Wonder’ Who Died of Stress
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A tunnel connecting New York City with New Jersey long bedeviled engineers and city planners, until one determined genius solved the puzzle.
Gil Troy
Published
Nov. 11 2017
12:00AM EST
Bettmann
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