Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke of the Senate's bumbling, reluctant treatment of the manpower problem, of its already plain intention to pass a toothless measure instead of the House-approved May-Bailey bill for limited national service...
...Bailey's bridge, designed for speedy building, is nothing more than a large-scale erector set. It consists of interchangeable, prefabricated steel panels which can be swiftly put together in almost any shape. The panels are held together by steel pins stuck through ready-made holes. The only tools needed are a few standard wrenches. Six men can carry the heaviest panel...
...lnvasion Practice. The bridge is adaptable to various kinds of traffic; a three-tier framework three panels wide can carry the heaviest tanks. A single span can be thrust 240 feet; by laying the ends on pontoons and joining sections, Bailey Bridges as long as 1,200 feet have been built...
...training for Bailey bridge-building, U.S. engineers practiced day after day through the pre-invasion summer of 1943, laying Bailey bridges across the Thames and tearing them down again. Today, under perfect conditions, a team of 115 engineers can build a five-span Bailey Bridge in 32 minutes flat. And its inventor, 42-year-old Donald Bailey, wears the Order of the British Empire...
...least five U.S. firms are now producing Bailey bridge parts for the Army and Lend-Lease, but none sees a bright postwar future for it. At 12½? a foot, a Bailey costs twice as much as a conventionally built steel bridge. But in flood country, where bridge washouts are frequent, Baileys may well be kept tucked away for emergency...