WORLD RECORD MADE BY NEGRO RIVETER'S.
BALTIMORE (U.S.). May 16. A gang of neacro riveters working at the Sparrows Point plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation broke the world's record for driving rivets m a steamship to-day. . Charles Knight drove 4875, three-quarter-inch rivets, 2| inches long m nine hours. The previous high record was 4442 established m ft shipyard m Scotland.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14635, 19 June 1918, Page 6
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61WORLD RECORD MADE BY NEGRO RIVETER'S. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14635, 19 June 1918, Page 6
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