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Summary: Newsreel item on a major explosion during an engineering project, USA, summer 1915.
Description: Engineers place dynamite into the holes drilled for the blast. The charge of 26 tons of dynamite is then used to blow a cliff-face, bringing down 300,000 tons of rock, "a record blast".