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Title: "As you were,"
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: (Bangs, John Kendrick) 1888- ed (Bangs, John Kendrick), 1862-1922, ed
Subjects: United States. War dept. Purchase, storage and traffic division. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, The Knickerbocker press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hen, which is in the center of each dining-room and is400 feet long. In the Navy Building, a transatlantic radio system makespossible quick transaction of business. From the central officemay be operated by remote control all naval high-power radiotransmitting stations. By operating a key in this office, amessage may be sent directly to Europe, or received from there.Ships at sea may communicate by wireless with this office ofthe Navy Department. Prior to the signing of the armistice, there were 1900telephone connections in the Munitions Building, with a dailyaverage of 65,000 calls. The Communication Branch handledabout 92,000 pieces of mail matter and 1800 telegrams andcablegrams each day. The Navy and the Munitions Buildings are of reinforcedconcrete throughout with steel sash, and are on pile founda-tions. The total quantity of concrete used was 68,000 yards,with 4500 tons of steel reinforcing bars. Never before has apoured concrete building of so large a floor area been attempted
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It Costs $10,000 to Wash the Windows Once H5 in one operation. The pouring of the concrete framework hasestablished a record for this kind of construction. The maxi-mum yardage for one day was 1750 cubic yards, equivalent to asection of the building 400 feet long and 60 feet wide and threestories high. It was not expected that piles would be needed, but thelocation proved to be a part of the old river-bed, and 5048concrete and composite piles, some of them fifty-two feet long,had to be driven. These difficulties, and the greater one of thesteadily increasing cost and constant replacement of labor,swelled the figures of the estimate, as did also the inclusion ofitems not originally contemplated. The buildings, complete with outside improvements suchas pavements, fences, and sewer, and interior equipment suchas cafeterias, call-bells, window shades, and linoleum, cost$7,042,498, to which should be added $222,205 f°r steam mainand rotary converter equipment, or a total of $7,264,703. Th

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