Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tactical missions, in the Army's attack-bomber competition. Douglas, which has also been one of the big Army contractors, had lost its entry when it started the Senate asking questions: at Santa Monica Test Pilot Johnny Cable cracked up the new Douglas ship, with a French observer aboard, and was killed. Re-entering the competition late, Douglas turned up with a slicked-up job, reputedly with a speed above 400 miles an hour, and, in a Garrison finish, last week took first money...
...Yankee Clipper is ready, sir, standing by for orders," Skipper La Porte answered with self-conscious crispness. From his swarthy chief he took the manifest, went aboard, and gave the command to cast off. Out on Long Island's Manhasset Bay, the Clipper headed into the wind. The thunder of her four engines re-echoed from the hangars as she got up on the step. In a few more seconds...
...Aboard S. S. Caribia bearing German refugees to South America...
...been among the greatest desires of my life to visit the United States, but in my wildest dreams I never believed I would go there aboard a United States warship with a chief of the United States Army who had come specially to take me along...
...picture of Franklin Roosevelt sitting at a table aboard ship in the Azores or some equally remote anchorage, settling the world's hash personally with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, was drawn in calm, confident words last week on the front page of the New York Times by its Washington correspondent, Arthur Krock. Some time last summer, said Mr. Krock, Mr. Roosevelt asked the Dictators to slip away and meet him at sea, but they declined...