Word: pontooned
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...State of Washington pondered plans for spanning deep, blue Lake Washington. Because of the unstable mud bottom, State highway engineers figured that an orthodox bridge, without approaches, would cost $18,000,000. Lacey V. Murrow, Director of Highways, and Charles E. Andrew, consulting engineer, decided that a pontoon bridge, approaches and all, could be built for $8,854,400. PWA offered to chip in $3,794,400. Seattle's City Council squeezed through a 5-to-4 endorsement...
...open, while Army umpires with white bands around their campaign hats marked down their scores. Sweaty infantrymen slogged along country roads. Artillery rumbled through peaceful villages, tired gunners asleep in the trucks. Rednecked horse cavalrymen galloped down ravines, and forded creeks behind cased guidons. Cursing engineers built pontoon bridges across rivers while machine guns chattered and infantrymen in trucks shouted for more speed...
When the recess was over, the Blue Army went after the invader like a winning boxer out of his corner. Through the chilly night (the temperature got down to 41°) engineers hurried pontoon bridges across the Raquette. Before dawn, while the bridges were still abuilding, infantrymen paddled across in assault boats, and rifle fire bit the dark. Again Hugh Drum's fast-moving motorized column, riding a motley assortment of green, red and white trucks, turned up on the Blacks' south flank. By noon the Blues' artillery had crossed the Raquette behind the infantry. With pleased...
...Crossed a 23-mile pontoon bridge to safety...
...bombers working with the Panzer command have blasted an airport and are landing parachutists to demoralize the enemy rear. Center, the enemy bunkers and pillboxes, strafed from the air, are being attacked by ground troops with anti-tank guns and flamethrowers. Engineers are repairing blasted bridges and building new pontoon bridges to carry tanks across the river. Lower left, tanks of various types wait in hiding while on the hill above a radio car coordinates the battle and the supply train waits to move...