Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diving work of a magnitude never before undertaken will be required. A school must be set up on Pier 88 to train scores of divers and hundreds of other salvage workers before the job can even be started. When salvage finally begins, the problem will include the construction of mammoth bulkheads inside the boat, to control the shift of the thousands of tons of water when she moves. The silt under her must be blown out and dredged out. A thousand holes in her steel skin, such as ports, must be sealed up. Out of her hull must be drained...
Till the skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson...
...Manhattan, the Metropolitan Museum wound up a mammoth moving job. Safely stowed in a secret steel and concrete country house 100 miles from New York are 10,000 art treasures-enough to be the nucleus of another great museum. The Metropolitan has been laying evacuation plans for two years: it fears friendly ack-ack shells more than enemy bombs. Gold and silver, ivory, jades and jewelry have gone into bank vaults. A carefully chosen 2% of the museum's remaining 500,000 treasures have been trucked to the country hideaway. Gone are the Altman and most of the Morgan...
...wartime even more than peacetime, Ordnance is a tough and thankless assignment. Though armaments production is moving faster than ever before, such mammoth problems as priorities remain unsolved and unsolvable. Which come first-airplanes or tanks, anti-aircraft guns or artillery...
...dreary, ever-pressing shortages of strategic materials pose one of the most troublesome problems of the U.S. air arm: the need of spacious, speedy transport units to move personnel and equipment to combat areas. Last week Curtiss-Wright Corp. had a new answer on the drawing board: a mammoth transport plane, perhaps the world's largest of its type, made mainly of plywood and plastics...