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...there were first signs of a break. Boom mewn in Tacoma voted to return to work at a compromise raise of 7½? an hour, other grievances to mediation...
Experts deny that there is a trend away from suspension bridges, though one such U.S. bridge (Washington's Tacoma Narrows Bridge) buckled in a high wind last November, and last year's prizewinner (the feathery Bronx-Whitestone Bridge) has recently been equipped with diagonal stays to check its oscillations. The Susquehanna River Bridge, which won the big bridge prize this year, is a type of bridge using the relatively new Wichert Truss which needs less steel and spreads to take up extra stress when its piers settle in soft river bottoms. It was built at a cost...
...Bethlehem Steel, Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding, Pusey & Jones, Los Angeles Shipbuilding: turbines for 25 partially built destroyers...
Even last week, on the day when the first generators were to start operation, sending power 266 miles to Tacoma's shipyards, 260 miles to Seattle's Boeing bomber plants, the work could not stop. The roustabouts, cat jockeys, bulldozers, greasers, welders, dynamiters, mixers, drillers, riggers, still pressed for time, worked on, unmindful of little ceremonies and speeches before movie cameras. With the precise delicacy of spider legs, the slender, giant cranes moved steadily on, lifting twelve-ton buckets of concrete to pour on the dam's western heights. "Dinky" skinners drove trains of concrete buckets over...
Worst blow was delivered last year in Eugene, Ore., whose citizens turned down Bonneville power. This left 125 miles of Bonneville transmission lines, built in hopes of a big new customer, with almost no place to go. Four months later Portland turned down Bonneville too. So, this month, did Tacoma and Spokane. In these riotous elections the PUDs and the private utilities sometimes made cause against BPA. Dr. Raver's own campaigning was often vitriolically abetted by that of Harold Ickes, who helped lose several elections by introducing the Federal interference issue into an already three-cornered fight...