Word: caissons
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...Honor. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh stood there, his shoulders drooped in memory of Le Bourget, Paris, 1927. At sharp noon a bugle shrilled. Fifteen wiry French sailors lifted the coffin, carried it cautiously down the green-carpeted gangplank, through the purple-and-black draped pier to a black caisson drawn by six horses. As if freighted with the sorrow of two nations, the casket became unmanageably heavy. In 30 hands it swayed perilously. Others leaped forward and with much straining helped to hoist it into position on the caisson. Bands took up the doleful beat of a funeral march. Soldiers...
...cellars not yet mopped up for German stragglers. General Neville had hastily established headquarters in a basement where he was busy issuing orders for the disposition of troops. His orderly hung the General's field overcoat in front of the house to dry. Along came mule and caisson with two doughboys perched aloft. German booty was in their minds and in their itching fingers, and the forest-green overcoat looked to them like field-gray. They proceeded to hack the embroidered sleeves off the overcoat with trench knives; scalps for their sweethearts at home. A good story would...
...second place the tank will be of use in the study of labor under specialized conditions, such as those encountered in tunnel construction, caisson building, altitude flying, and other trades where workers must endure abnormal atmospheric changes. Bicycles and rowing machines will be installed to measure the quantity of work a man can accomplish under varying conditions...
...Faced with severe diffculties in diving operations to raise the sunken submarine S-51 from 128 feet of water off Block Island (TIME, Oct. 5, 12), experts designed a compression chamber wherein animals were supplied with various mixtures of oxygen to find a combination that did not give them "caisson disease" or "the bends," as divers call the dangerous condition produced when they are brought too swiftly out of high-pressure depths. The basis of this dangerous condition is the formation of bubbles in the blood stream, bubbles of nitrogen that has not escaped fast enough from solution...
...feet and lead-weighted belts was difficult and dangerous. About an hour and a half was spent in raising them to the surface after each descent. They were raised 15 ft. and then allowed a rest while they adjusted themselves to the pressure. Sudden lifting produces the "bends" or caisson disease. Tanks were at hand on the surface in case of emergency that might require a diver's being raised rapidly. If so, he would be speedily thrust into one of the tanks under pressure, which would be gradually lowered, to save him from the harmful effect...