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Title
D102639-21
Date(s)
- 1956-11-02 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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General Adjustment Bureau, U.S.Oil Refinery; damaged reactor tower. The ten million dollar US Oil & Refining Co. was being built on 120 acres south of Lincoln Ave. on the newly dredged Port Industrial Waterway. Projected opening date was 12/1/1956. The workers clearly appear to be discussing the accident that managed to bend the arm of the crane so severely. The mobile cranes were being used to maneuver nine 70 foot and 110,000 pound "cracking" towers into place.
Petroleum industry--Tacoma; US Oil & Refining Co. (Tacoma); Hoisting machinery;