Word: caissons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...body lay in state at the L.B.J. Library in Austin and later in the Rotunda of the Capitol, tens of thousands stood in line to pay homage at the bier -and to be thanked for coming by Lady Bird Johnson and her daughters. The dirges and the caisson and the white horses provided the traditional ingredients of a presidential funeral, but the rhetoric was somehow peculiar to the nature of Lyndon Johnson, as when Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk declared that "in another age, he might have been known as Lyndon the Liberator." Another old friend, W. Marvin Watson...
...going to be around to see it," he had said), including attendance by heads of state. But a shorter, simpler schedule was ordered by his wife Bess, 87, whom he had often referred to fondly as "the boss." Instead of the planned procession with muffled drums, a casket-bearing caisson and the symbolic riderless horse, a caravan of 21 cars and a hearse briskly transferred the body from a funeral home to the Truman Library in Independence. There some 75,000 people queued patiently through the night, some carrying sleeping children in their arms, to file past the mahogany coffin...
Conditions in the caissons were infernal. A third of the men quit every week, to be replaced by immigrants hungry for jobs. After workers in the New York caisson began to die of the bends, the men struck, unsuccessfully, for three dollars for a four-hour day. Fringe benefits consisted of a set of coathooks and medical care, such...
...Stock Exchange, however, and all of the "39 Sullivan buildings," with the exception of the Carson Pirie store, were the work of the partnership of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan. It was Adler who designed the floating caisson foundations that supported one wall of the Stock Exchange, thereby ending the problem of uneven settlement of buildings. Many of the firm's building designs were due to Adler's engineering expertise. Although I speak with a certain prejudice as Adler's granddaughter, architectural historians agree that much credit given to Sullivan alone belongs to his partner as well...