Word: shipyard
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When War broke, he asked for and got an appointment as consultant at a shipyard in Camden, N. J. For months he was given nothing to do. The other engineers were trying vainly to balance the turbine rotors for torpedo boat destroyers. Called in as a last resort. Teetor drew on his supersensitive ''feel" for vibration, found a way to balance the rotors in three hours each...
...exciting feature of the Motor Boat Show was, as usual, missed by everyone who bought tickets last week: the arrival of the boats. Most alarming voyage to this year's show was that of the Wheeler Shipyard's 56-ft. Playmate. Lost in the fog for four hours during its water passage from the Wheeler Yards in Brooklyn to its docks in Manhattan, the Playmate was finally hoisted out of the water onto a 30-ton truck. The job took 40 minutes, cost $1,200. Last year, after measuring an elevated railway crossing and deciding it was just...
...Post Office Building find a distinguished old gentleman with a snowy Vandyke beard, twinkling eyes, rippling humor. New Hampshire-born and educated, he has, in his 62 years, published the Boston Traveler, superintended the Associated Press's New England division, conducted a Boston investment house, operated a shipyard in Florida, helped found the U. S. Chamber of Commerce...
...billowed in from the sea. It blurred the outlines of the ancient town and muffiled the hammers in the shipyard where hundreds of workmen tortured English oak into ships and more ships for King William, scotching the Sun King, so they thought, with every hammer-blow...
Such his thoughts as he labored in the shipyard. And the old sea town and the English workmen were none the wiser...