Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Atlantic shipping lines, Seaboard Railways and unfriendly shippers protested bitterly to the Shipping Board and the Interstate Commerce Commission that the Seatrain, a floating railroad yard with a mile of track below-deck to hold 100 loaded freight cars, was damagingly unfair competition. Seatrain New York has a speed of 16 knots, can carry freight faster than any coastwise freighter, can lighter it from Hoboken to New Orleans in six days for half the rail fare. The Shipping Board handed down a last-minute decision while Seatrain New York was fidgeting in New York Harbor: Seatrain Lines Inc. will...
Giovanni Morosini worked his way over as a deck hand on a sailing ship. Jay Gould kept the bargain, gave him a job on the Erie at .$30 a month, from which he rapidly skyrocketed to be general auditor of the road. Hulking young Morosini with his flamboyant manner, his bullet head, his colossal mustaches (alia Vittorio Emmamiele} and his stiletto was the kind of man Gould, the unscrupulous railway pirate, could understand. Before long he was Gould's "secretary" (armed bodyguard), finally a full fledged Gould partner-and then how the money rolled in! He married, built...
...seconds for an elevator. This impatience cost Manhattan's Empire State Building nearly $400,000 for extra elevators. The space those elevators occupy takes more than four acres from the building's rentable space. The Empire State owners could have saved space & money by running 20 double-deck elevators to the 80th floor instead of the present 36 single-deck passenger cars which go that high. But the owners figured their building would quickly fill up with tenants whose rents would pay for the extra elevators and the lost floor space. More fundamentally, the owners were pressed...
...water pressure on the bathysphere was about 4,800 tons; the temperature 50°F within. Dr. Beebe ordered the sphere raised to the Freedom's deck, popped out with: "The scientific results are most satisfactory...
Fortnight ago Dr. Beebe lowered his bathysphere empty to 3,000 ft. at the end of a stout cable. When he hauled it back to the deck of his tug Freedom, the bathysphere was full of water under pressure such that it blew the lid's bolt across the deck after it was loosened. There was a tiny leak in a port gasket. Any surface creature inside would have been crushed to jelly...