Word: wichert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 of $4,085,000 by Baltimore's J. E. Greiner Co., winners of an honorable mention last year. Its designer, Greiner Co.'s young...