Word: rivets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Directed by spidery, snapping-eyed, sagacious Curator Paul Rivet, this exhibition is a worthy successor to the old Trocadéro's exhibit of comparative sculpture. Best idea: arranging showcases like text and footnotes in a book, one line of cases along left walls giving a bird's-eye impression of each period of each civilization, while other cases standing out from distant right walls contain complete museum collections. Smartest mechanical innovation: a show case which displays any one of nine related objects at the touch of a button, a great improvement on the usual system of showing...
...months hence the Wages-&-Hours law, to rivet a floor (25? per hr.) and a ceiling (44 hr. per week) under and over U. S. Labor, will go into effect. To Washington last week to square off at administering that law went Elmer Frank ("Jap") Andrews, 48, the mild-mannered civil engineer whom Franklin Roosevelt called from his parallel post in New York State. Last week, Mr. Andrews marched into
...cinemaddicts, toy makers, and U. S. travelers in the West. Last week Eastern railway passenger travel suddenly got Flashed up when two of the nation's most famous trains, New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited and Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited, were streamlined to the last rivet and brake beam and made into the first all-room Pullman trains...
...wheel trucks. Four-wheel trucks are made possible by improved design and the use of lighter materials throughout. By using high tensile alloy steel, weight of the car has been cut from 180,000 Ib. to around 120,000 Ib. Complete welding of the sides removes all rivet heads and joints, makes them stronger and sleeker. Between cars are semi-articulated sections, and aprons between trucks conceal the car's mechanical equipment. More innovations: flush windows, entrance steps that roll out of sight, vestibule at one end only...
...York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, son of the inventor, grasped the controls of a pneumatic riveting machine, shot a flaming bolt into a 70-ft. section of the keel of the North Carolina, first battleship the U. S. has built since the West Virginia was commissioned in 1923. North Carolina's proud Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton shot the second rivet and the Yard's new commandant, Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward, dispatched the third. Before newsreel cameramen had picked up their equipment to depart, a battery of professional riveters...