Word: ammann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal. The Federal Government lent $35,000,000, gave $9,200,000 towards its construction. Largely because of this heavy stake, President Roosevelt went to New York City last week to dedicate the new bridge. Chief engineer of the Triborough was Othmar Hermann Ammann, who swung the Port of New York Authority's huge George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River. When his turn came last week to answer President Roosevelt's oratory, Engineer Ammann low-rated the science of his bridge-building by declaring...
...more interest to motorists than the bridges themselves was the system of traffic control devised by Engineer Ammann and aides. By means of carefully arranged approaches and cunning underpasses on Randalls Island, all crossovers were completely eliminated from the Triborough, with the result that not a single traffic light is needed. Simple though the system looked on paper, it proved complicated enough the first day to send President Roosevelt's police escort awry...
Othmar Hermann Ammann, bridge engineer...
More astounding than the vast engineering, under Chief Engineer Othmar Hermann Ammann, was the economy and speed of construction. The bridge was finished in four and a half years-eight months ahead of schedule. Construction appropriations were $60,000,000; actual costs considerably below. This so amazed Governor Roosevelt that at the dedication he exclaimed: "For its planning, execution and sound financing, the commissioners of the Port of New York Authority must be credited with a high and unselfish devotion to the public good. . . . Their methods are charting the course toward the more able and honorable administration of our nation...