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Police boats plied the river to rescue drowning pilgrims and pick up the usual bodies floating downstream from other cities. A half-mile Bailey bridge and two quarter-mile pontoon bridges were built to enable pilgrims to bathe on both sides of the river...
...invented and patented a gadget for bolting vertical and horizontal sections of pipe together to form scaffolding. He made his first joints himself, soon had enough cash and orders to persuade bankers to back a factory. His factory turned out miles of pipe and thousands of joints for scaffolds, pontoon bridges, temporary grandstands. In World War II he switched from pipe to artillery shell production. At war's end he decided to turn his pipe into the framework of a motor scooter like the just-launched Piaggio & Co.'s Vespa (TIME, June 16, 1952). Last year Innocenti Corp...
...suit. He had enlisted in the Reserve as a machinist's mate second class, with the specific intention of becoming an aviator. After ground training at M.I.T. he went to Pensacola and learned to fly the Navy's N-9-an old Jenny dressed up with a pontoon and wing floats. Commissioned a Reserve ensign, Pride was designated Naval Aviator No. 1119. At the end of the war he was in Europe...
...last week. The pilgrims swarmed into the nearby city of Allahabad (pop. 260,000) on 200 special trains, rattle-clatter bicycles, on foot and upon the backs of coolies and stronger relatives. The government had spent $2,000,000 and many months of careful planning on safe roads, pontoon bridges and DDT. They also mustered 40,000 troops, police, Boy Scouts and volunteer workers to insure that no harm should come to the faithful. But when the holy men and the first procession headed back from the confluence, they were confronted by tens of thousands of other pilgrims, surging...
Local justice ordered the new landlords to pay the old a fair price for the bean fields, but the question of what to do about a displaced quarter-mile of vital state highway still remained. Like a link of pontoon bridge that has drifted downstream, one stretch of the highway lay useless at the valley's bottom, and the vagrant mountain sat camel-like astride the rest. Jordan's ministers estimated that it would cost $400,000 and 40,000 man-days of labor to push the mountain aside, and Jordan's budget could never stand...