Word: crawlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clear as Mud. Is this hell or is this life? Characteristically, in Samuel Beckett's world it seems to make little difference. But wherever his creature is bound, Beckett is clearly bent on re-creating the spiritual history of man. The crawler encounters another crawler called Pim and begins to "educate" him. "first lesson ... I dig my nails into his armpit right hand right pit he cries I withdraw then thump with fist on skull his face sinks in the mud his cries cease end of first lesson." Pim learns not to cry but to sing when...
...Tall buildings rise in Europe with a minimum of traffic tie-ups and almost no noise, in pleasant contrast to the bedlam at most building sites in the U.S. Main reason for the difference is the kind of crane builders use: in the U.S. most of them use "crawler" cranes that clog streets and growl angrily under the strain of hoisting a load; in Europe, construction men have learned over the past decade to employ the self-mounting "tower" crane, which is powered by a quietly humming electric motor instead of a diesel, operates off the street-usually from...
...Angeles' new Gateway East building. The chief beneficiaries are the two main manufacturers, Sweden's A. B. Lindenkranar and West Germany's Liebherr. The cranes range in price from $35,000 to $60,000, depending on lifting capacity, v. about $90,000 for the crawler crane...
...from floor to floor by means of built-in hydraulic jacks. It supports itself on the building's side or on a tower that runs up inside what will later become an elevator shaft. Its counterbalanced boom can deftly pinpoint a load anywhere on the construction floor, whereas crawlers, operating from street level, can only inch a load to the edge of the floor. And the tower's heights are unlimited, while the crawler can rise no higher than 35 stories without danger of toppling. At job's end, the contractor simply disassembles the tower crane...
...racks, each supported on eight crawler treads 12 ft. high. An umbilical tower will stand at one end, the rocket at the other end. When assembly is complete, the entire mechanism will creep to the launching sites at one mile per hour along wide, heavy-duty roads. The assembly building, crawlers, roads and launch sites for the C-5s will cost $400 million, which alone is nearly four times the yearly cost of maintaining all national parks...