Word: riveting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time we left Cherbourg until we reached Halifax. We had difficulty even getting into Queenstown. The storm reached its climax two days later, when the waves were 60 feet high, and the wind had a velocity of 110 miles an hour. . . . The leak probably was the result of a rivet being worked loose by the laboring of the vessel. It was found there was no danger to the vessel and that only one of the four oil tanks was affected. I put the vessel's head toward Halifax and succeeded in coming within 19 miles of the port when...
President John Goefield of the United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters heated a rivet into a glowing thing of beauty. Frank Morrison, Secretary of the A. F. of L., passed it to some workmen. William Green, President of the A. F. of L., picked up a riveting hammer, sank the glowing thing into the keel of what is to be the 10,000-ton Pensacola, first of the U. S. "treaty cruisers." Thus organized labor demonstrated that it knew Oct. 27 was Navy Day, and not merely the opening of Apple Week. The host, Admiral Charles P. Plunkett, Commandant...
When an Army engineer prophesied last fall (TIME, Oct. 26) that some fine day the shattering clangor of pneumatic rivet-hammers would no longer be heard upon the metallic skeletons of city buildings, having been replaced by electric welding devices, the urban public pricked its abused ears and hotel managers sighed their hopes...
Last fortnight the prophecy of this blessing to mankind had its first fulfillment. The Morgan Engineering Co., of Alliance, Ohio, announced the completion of a two-story automobile sales and storage plant, built throughout with metal lumber, welded throughout electrically. Not a single rivet was used...
Engineering added a temporary milestone to its faith when one Benjamin B. Odell, a former Governor of New York, drove a rivet. He completed the longest single span in the world. The great span, borne on 18-inch cables, is 1,623 ft. long, and dangles 155 ft. over the Hudson River about six miles north of Peekskill, between Anthony's Nose and Bear Mountain. With its approaches, it cost $6,000,000 and will be open after January as a toll bridge. Except for the railway bridge at Poughkeepsie, it is the only vehicular bridge across the Hudson...