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General Construction: After the Korean War ended, there was a tapering off of American shipbuilding activities. In the early 1960's, building
Before a shipbuilding contract is signed, the prospective owner and builder will have arrived at an agreement regarding the general construction dimensions, characteristics, and appearance of the vessel. This agreement is embodied in a set of documents known as the contract plans and specifications. Not to be confused with the numerous working drawings which must be produced during the course of construction, the contract plans (usually ten to twenty in number) show the general construction arrangement, scantlings (sizes of structural members) and principal dimensions of the vessel, while the specifications describe quite thoroughly the details of hull construction, machinery installation and outfit which are not amenable to delineations on the contract plans.
Use of iron and steel for roof-frames [become general construction, especially where wide spans |required as in the case of railway train The general construction principles of construction in wooden frames are utilized; but al or conical roofs, metal trusses require ation of the principles governing those trusses.
The cover was an in dustrial photograph by Margaret Bourke-White of th< construction of a great dam near Fort Peck, Montana, k the style for which, as a photographer for Fortune, she was noted. The opening picture story, however, focused not on the construction, but on the life of the builders oi the dam and their families in temporary cities in the desert. It was not what the editors had assigned, and they wrote, by way of introduction:
What the Editors expected—for use in some later issue-were construction pictures as only Bourke-White can take them. What the Editors got was a human document of frontier life which, to them at least, was a revelation. |
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