Word: rivetting
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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clangor of pneumatic rivet-hammers would no longer be heard upon the metallic skeletons of city buildings, having been replaced by electric welding devices, the urban public pricked its abused ears and hotel managers sighed their hopes...
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...
Among the defeated Senators were M. Rivet, Vice President of the Senate; M. de la Marzelle, anti-immorality campaigner, who had a hand in removing Victor Marguerite, author of La Gargonne, from the roll of the Legion of Honor; M. Lafevre, noted Free Mason and ex-Minister...
...production of peacetime articles made necessary new machinery, not only in considerable amounts, but of many different kinds. Bethlehem's war output was highly standardized, and consisted of machine shells, etc., all exactly alike. Now these shell plants are provided with machinery to produce milling cutters, punches, jigs, rivet sets, gauges and a high grade of other finished machine shop products...
...Childs Cup race between Columbia, Princeton and Pennsylvania will be held on the Harlem Rivet. This will be followed by the American Henley on the Schuylkill, on May 28. The season will close with the Poughkeepsie Regatta, on June...