Word: girders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood Ned Wells, 26, a commercial photographer who makes his living taking pictures of incoming ships from the bridge for a studio that peddles prints to crews and passengers. Fifteen hundred feet away, Wells saw a woman climb over the rail of the bridge and stand hesitantly on a girder. She was Mrs. E. Noel Durant, 61, a retired banker's wife who had been brooding over her health...
...Miami's gaunt convention hall last week, flags and bunting brightened every bare steel girder. It was the annual gathering of the American Legion. To hear Old Soldier Douglas MacArthur, 14,000 legionnaires thronged the hall, and brimmed over onto bleachers set up outside. During MacArthur's 45-minute address, he was halted by applause 49 times...
...kind of picture that forms at the mention of London or New York or Paris. On the opposite page are some postwar Moscow pictures. Like postcard shots anywhere, they put the best face on the city: behind the big buildings are acres of slums. The girder-skeleton (top left) is for a 26-story office building on Smolensky Square, not very imposing in Manhattan but a colossus in Europe. The splendid subway station is on the newly opened Great Circle link (TIME, Nov. 14). Most of the shiny autos, which are on their way to a soccer game...