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...welded together in shops, then hauled & hoisted to the ways and welded into a complete hull. In shops welding is quicker than in the ways, since a welder can easily reach difficult spots and never has to weld over his head with molten steel drops raining down on his mask and shoulders. Formerly, a keel was laid in the ways and riveters started at the middle and worked slowly toward each end of the ship, because the plates had to be staggered and overlapped in an intricate patchwork. The 530,000 rivets in a typical 1918 freighter filled perhaps...
...pulled the paper stuffing out of the grenade pouches in his belt and stuck the newly arrived "pineapples" in place. He had limbered up his new gas mask, which he would need more than legs in case of a heavy dust storm, and he had tucked away half a dozen pairs of flimsy Cellophane dust-goggles. He had pinched a piece of netting from a truck's camouflage to drape over his helmet-both for his personal camouflage and for swishing away flies. He had bound up the desert sores on the backs of his hands...
...while he could hear his mates calling him. For twelve hours he whooped and hollered and kicked at rats. Next morning he stripped off his long woolen underwear, touched a match to it. The smudge in the well got so thick he had to don his gas mask. Because smoking was strictly forbidden, an angry sergeant soon discovered him, rescued Private Sauter...
...death. But gradually he had created a new Lenin of his own, a legend to be his own backdrop. He could afford in 1939 to be one of the sad-faced bearers of the ashes of Lenin's widow; he now can face Lenin's death mask in his office. For Lenin was now a shapeless memory, a symbol of Moscow, of life itself...
...experienced jumper, he leaped five times from altitudes up to 16,500 feet, laden with his weight in equipment. His baggage: a device to measure altitude and his breathing rate; a microphone; a motion-picture camera to record turns of his body; a stop watch; a special oxygen mask and helmet...