The Link, Vol. 9

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Excerpt from The Link, Vol. 9: August-September, 1951Although it was acool morning, sweat was heavy inside Red Sloane's gloves as he started downward. On a steel beam two stories below, Joe Regan was holding a blueprint at arm's length. Three ¿oors below him was the rivet ing gang, then empty 'air.Glancing up, Red saw the long iron beam. A cable hooked about its middle, it swung with slow balance. The cable jerked suddenly taut as the derrick stopped, and the iron stick bounced at the end of the steel strands.Red felt a sick paralysis deep in his stomach' That was what had happened to Tony. The derrick Operator had halted the cable pay out with a jerk, and the beam had hit Tony. Nine stories through the skeleton steel he had fallen. Red felt his throat muscles tighten as he remembered the long scream of horror.When you stop watching your feet and start eyeing the ground, quit! That was what Joe Regan, the foreman, had told him last night. Joe knew he was afraid. As foreman, -he knew those things. He had to know which were the best riveters, connectors, and riggers. He had to know which men were good on high iron and which were afraid. The lives of the whole steel crew could depend on that knowledge.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.