Word: piers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engineering means ingenuity. The engineers in charge of the new bandstand on Municipal Pier, St. Petersburg, Fla., were nearly "stumped" when it was discovered that their 16-ton concrete floor was 18 inches too near the roof to permit a sounding board to be fitted in. Raising the roof would be costly. Lowering the floor on screw jacks would involve getting the jacks out from underneath. They solved their problem with ice and sunshine. Jacking the floor up two feet, they shoved in 50-pound cakes of ice, removed the jacks .and old floor supports. Before the ice melted...
...Bader, 52, Mayor of Atlantic City, N. J.; in the Atlantic City Hospital, following an appendicitis operation.** He was in turn newsboy (1887), dental student, veterinary student, financial student (Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania), professional footballer (1902), large scale garbage collector, contractor (rebuilt the famed Steel Pier), mayor...
Only their bishop had an overcoat yet without shivering, in waterfront breezes of December, 214 curious-looking people stood three hours one day last week on a Manhattan pier. Then they sailed on the S. S. Western World for Paraguay...
...American Hospital Association met on the Steel Pier at Atlantic City last week and brought forth such frank criticisms as are seldom heard at association meetings. Three representatives of each of the one thousand member hospitals of the association were present. In addition two thousand others of their personnel attended. Each of them-the men and the women, the laity and the profession-had given of their time, their money, their lives, on committees, on staffs, on patient registers, to hospital work. And, as there is no anger like that of the hampered welldoer, each wanted to speak forth...
...foreign countries with a lot of professors who had signed up for nice soft berths? But stay-at-homes knew not whereat they snorted. Some weeks ago the seagoers were obliged to file their choice of .studies and many a bundle handled by grumbling roustabouts on the Holland-American pier last week, was heavy with textbooks, dictionaries, notepaper, study-lamps. "Hard work" was the ship's first order...