Word: decking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carom Shot." Aboard the big flattop -christened in October by Mrs. Christian Herter and scheduled to go to sea in May -were some 3,500 civilian workers, fitting out the newest queen of the seas. On the hangar deck Navy Lieut. Vito Milano, supervisor of hull construction, was getting things ready for a pep rally to celebrate progress (85% complete) and ask for more. A fork lift truck started to pick up a big steel trash bin; apparently the bin nudged a heavy steel plate, which sheared off the valve of a 500-gallon tank of diesel fuel, used...
Through the hangar bay and in the compartments above the main deck Constellation became a giant bake oven. The racing flames, fed on a maze of wooden scaffolding and trash that littered the decks, ate hungrily through fire-resistant wiring insulation and paint. Rushing for safety, work crews found the companion-ways blocked by billowing smoke, retreated to airtight compartments (there are 3,000 in the ship), where they hammered on bulkheads in the hope of attracting help. One man was trapped for six hours before firemen found him. Some dropped from portholes into the icy East River, where they...
...rolling 120 acres outside Buffalo last week, engineers started planning the construction of a $12.5 million apartment hotel and a cluster of small cottages, to be called Rockledge. It will have a pitch-and-putt golf course, lawn bowling, shuffleboard, roof garden, sun deck and an infirmary offering 24-hr, medical service. What sets Rockledge apart from other hotel projects is that it is designed to house only retired people-at a profit. Prices will start at $8,000 to buy a living room-bedroom apartment, plus a $112.50-per-person monthly charge for meals and maintenance. The builders...
...Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, the 33,000-ton battleship West Virginia sank in Pearl Harbor's waters, victim of half a dozen Japanese torpedoes. The attack had come so suddenly, the great ship was crippled so quickly, that 66 crewmen were caught below deck and went down with the West Virginia. Last week, 19 years after the disaster at Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy finally released a harrowing report on the ordeal of three sailors who were aboard the West Virginia...
...Hymie the Mink" (square moniker: Herman Wallman), a Manhattan furrier turned boxing manager, who could not hide his astonishment at Gibson's volubility ("You or I would take the Fifth Amendment," Hymie told a reporter). Admitting that he knew Carbo shuffled managers and fighters like a deck of marked cards, Wallman nonetheless professed astonishment at "all this stuff about stealing and robbing." ¶Carmen Basilio, broken-nosed ex-middleweight, ex-welterweight champion, who proclaimed himself enraged that men like Carbo and Palermo were ruining boxing, but who restrained "my inner feelings because there are ladies here." ¶Jack Kearns...