Extensive new pier facilities, including 81-ft wide wharf 2350 ft long and 9 mi of railroad track have been completed at ocean port; four floating rigs drove 7000 wood piles required for wharf, and 100-man carpenter crew followed immediately to add 120 ft of wood deck in 210-hr shifts.
Long wharf constructed in five months
Eng News-Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 130 , n 24
1943
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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