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...Chauncey Mitchell Depew Jr.). He remained board chairman of the New York Central up to his death. A few hours after he died, steelworkers swung the final girder into place atop the pinnacle of his last project, the 36-story New York Central Building behind the Grand Central station, dominating famed Park Avenue...
...building of skyscrapers there are a few details in which science has not supplanted skill. Workmen still play catch with incandescent rivets, which, when heated, are tossed through the air 30, 40, 50 feet to where a nonchalant figure, swaying on a matchstick girder, swings a pail to catch them. Loiterers many floors below stand enchanted, watching the bits of glowing metal leap obligingly like miraculously agile trout into a waiting pan. Loiterers reflect that while science sometimes fails when heavy steel bars drop down, skill is infallible, for no rivet ever falls...
...engine throttle and the heft of a tool." They saw a barrel-chested iron-forger, naked above his leather apron, poising his sledge for a blow. They saw a strong-armed Nordic guiding an electric drill, and a cool Nordic in overalls _ and gauntlets, riding midair on a girder -perhaps a bone in the steel skeleton of the new Book Building, "world's highest." They saw the muscular, furious, aging Christ striding over the world more like a scourge than a savior-the figure of Christ that had caused so much ferment in Sculptor Kalish's native Cleveland...
...Hotter than any flame is the electric arc already adapted to girder-welding (TIME...
...Welding. Hotel-managers and their patrons, apartment-dwellers and other city folk, gave thanks for a report by the U. S. Bureau of Standards that arc-welded girder joints can be substituted for pneumatically riveted joints, being as strong, often stronger. The significance: no more cannonading clatter on skyscraper frames outside the sleepy urbanite's window; arc welding, where girder steel is melted into a joint by powerful electric current, is silent...