Word: decking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...time for all who fear seasickness to take to the lifeboats. The rest of you must cling to the mast." In these ringing quarter-deck tones, President Charles de Gaulle last week warned his ministers that he had set a course into the eye of the storm. His decision: to speed a solution toward an "Algerian republic." The U.S. had just elected a President who in 1957 stirred up a flurry in France by declaring that "the independence of Algeria" was "the essential first step" in North Africa. The Algerian rebels are pressing Morocco hard to grant passage...
Tourists file through the garish, neon-lit Wanchai quarter-the world of Suzie Wong-dodging red rickshas and the green, double-decker tramcars. There are bars and bar girls on every corner, big dance halls, and at Typhoon Shelter, prostitutes perched on the deck of sampans call their wares to passing sailors along the quay. But Hong Kong night life is hardly wild in the old Shanghai tradition and barely compares with that of present-day Tokyo or Manila...
Frisco's Gilliland also put Frisco engineers to work to design a special auto-carrying freight car. They devised a triple-deck, 85-ft. flatcar capable of carrying twelve standard or 15 compact cars v. eight or ten cars piggybacked. The Frisco commissioned Pullman Inc. to build a prototype, and after testing it ordered 129 more. The first went into service in August, proved so economical that the St. Louis-Dallas delivery charge was reduced to $65.05 for a standard car, $54 for a compact. By the end of this month, when all 130 of the new cars...
...inside each other like Chinese boxes. More recently, the visionaries have been apt to reflect Le Corbusier's warning that "the problem of the century is the problem of the city." Dismayed by blight and overcrowding, Kiyonori Kikutake designed a city over water consisting of a huge floating deck that would be pierced by great concrete cylinders lined with dwellings. Buckminster Fuller planned a dome to shelter Manhattan, and Hans Poelzig a towering, terraced metropolis reminiscent of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon...
...began the final air attack. Hellcats and Avengers were able to make selective runs on the slowly moving, almost helpless ship." As Ensign Yoshida recalls, "Men were jumbled together in disorder on the deck. Admiral Ito struggled to his feet. His chief of staff then rose and saluted. A prolonged silence followed. Ito looked around, shook hands deliberately with his staff officers, and then went resolutely to his cabin. The deck was nearly vertical. Shells of the big guns skidded, crashing against the bulkhead and kindling the first of a series of explosions." At 1423 this queen of the battlewagons...