Bridge-Tunnel Inches Across Chesapeake Bay The world’s longest bridge tunnel is slowly inching across turbulent seas at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. The 17.6-mile crossing, which is routed along the edge of the At lantic Ocean, will link Virginia’s Eastern Shore peninsula with the rest of the State near Norfolk. The mammoth project will cost 139 million dollars and is sche duled for completion late in 1963. The first section of tunnel re cently was installed, the National Geographic Society reports. The logistics and magnitude of the job make it one of the great engineering feats of the century. Six months were needed to mobi lize the millions of tons of equip ment and material for the struc ture. Year-long Survey Surveyors worked a year to chart a passage across the open water. As neither shore is visible from the central portion, the United States Coast and Geode PEACOCK FUNERAL HOME 24-Hiv—AMBULANCE—24-Hr. SHALLOTTE, N. C. 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