Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve other men were working up underneath the completed centre span of the new San Francisco-Marin County bridge.* Like wrinkled grey granite, 220 ft. below them ran the swift tidal currents of the Golden Gate. Most of the men were standing on a heavy wooden platform, slung below the rail-girders on steel beams. They were yanking away the boards from beneath the hardened concrete floor of the 4,200-ft. span. Two men were below them picking fallen boards out of the stout hempen safety net that stretched the whole length of the span...
...about 10 a. m. on Wednesday. On Monday the safety of the platform had been questioned, reinforcing bolts had been put through the brackets which held the four wheels on which the 30-by-60 ft. platform was moved along the rail-girders. On Tuesday, Foreman "Slim" Lambert and his crew had worked all day on the platform. A second platform, not yet in use, was suspended at the first tower on the San Francisco side. Unknown to Lambert, a party of State engineers a few minutes before had pronounced that other platform unsafe, were even then walking...
...ships, but observers guessed that the two ships would start experimental high-altitude flights across the Atlantic. T.W.A. needs new planes at once, will not have superchargers installed until it sees how Pan American's work. Meanwhile the planes will fly at normal 5,000-to-14,000-ft. heights on the transcontinental run. T.W.A. plans to put six in service early in 1938, has an option on 17 more. One statistic to show size: in addition to 32 passengers, the 307 will carry a cargo weighing more than the DC-3's entire payload...
...farm some out, the design turned out heavier than expected, and the six staffs of engineers have been unable to agree. Result: the DC-4 is still on paper. Meanwhile, Pan American and Transcontinental & Western Air have separately been investigating high-altitude flying. P.A.A. decided that 20,000 ft. was its optimum flight path; T.W.A. has plumped for an "overweather" route as high as 35,000 ft. Boeing also had been doing high-altitude research for the Army. This fact, plus the success of the four-motored 299, intrigued both P.A.A. and T.W.A. Last week the two noncompeting lines...
...each team plays its rivals four times, twice on each one's court. Last week Stanford, apparently the best team in, its Conference and one of the best in the country, beat California at Berkeley, 36-to-32, in a game featured by the fact that its 6 ft. 3 in. forward, Hank Luisetti, whom Coach John Bunn calls the greatest player in the history of the game, was held to 15 points. In nine Conference games, of which Stanford has lost only one, to the University of Southern California, and in a preConference transcontinental tour, on which Stanford...