Word: pontoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High Cost of Rhythm. He once described himself as a seaplane which needed the old masters as pontoons for his own takeoff; it would have been more correct to call the old masters one pontoon and non-European art the other. Like Delacroix, he had visited North Africa and returned with a lasting predilection for harem props and paraphernalia. Unlike the earlier Frenchman, he found an ancient way of seeing as well...
Attendance at the Lake Washington event may reach 100,000. Since legal difficulties prohibit an admission fee, spectators will be able to view the regatta free of charge from the more-than-a-mile-long floating concrete pontoon bridge...
...carried on by the "cat skinners" who drive the caterpillar trains (tractors and sleds) which bring supplies across the snow from Edmonton. Passenger service to & from Yellowknife, as well as to outlying claims, is furnished by Canadian Pacific Airlines and by bush pilots in small planes like ski-or pontoon-equipped Noorduyn Norsemen...
...bleeding western flank. The Remagen bridge led into rugged country without any close objective of strategic importance. To realize Remagen's fullest value, ten or even 20 more crossings of the Rhine were needed, crossings by every means possible: assault boats, amphibious armor and carriers, motor-driven rafts, pontoon bridges, pneumatic-float bridges, even perhaps by multiple-span Bailey bridges longer than any yet thrown together. In the north, the Rhine is wide...
...citation continued: "During initial assault phases Lt. Seaman efficiently co-ordinated action of his command with those of Naval Combat Demolition Units, Pontoon Causeway Units, and the off-shore traffic control unit to provide for the prompt clearing, organization and efficient operation of his beach areas . . . (Lt. Seaman) contributed materially to the success of the invasion and to proper maintenance of the Allied Armies in Southern France...