Crossword-Solution: PONTOON 7 letters, 39 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

There was a big temporary pontoon affair to take the railway across, but I calculated that the main bridge would be ready inside a month.

CHAPTER XXVII SAFETY AND LIFE-SAVING DEVICES Wireless telegraphy--Water-tight bulkheads--Submarine signals--Life-boats and rafts--Nixon's pontoon--Life-preservers and buoys--Rockets.

The crowds are patient, however, and in one Edison picture involving the blowing up of a bridge by the villain of the piece and the substitution of a pontoon bridge by a company of engineers just in time to allow the heroine to pass over in her automobile, more than a thousand people stood around for almost an entire day waiting for the tedious rehearsals to end and the actual performance to begin.

The General was going to establish himself in it, after having examined on the banks of the Marne, the works of the pontoon builders, who had been constructing several military bridges for the troops.

The features of dispersal, intended to be explained by it, would be accomplished just as well by an unknown number of islands which have joined into larger complexes while elsewhere they subsided again: like pontoon-bridges which may be opened anywhere, or like a series of superimposed dissolving views of land and sea-scapes.