Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General Bryant Edward Moore was a soldier by profession but a sailor by avocation. A down-Easter by birth (Ellsworth, Me.), he spent as much time as he could aboard his big sailing yacht or his Star Class racer...
...east. Then a Navy float plane, out on a similar mission, found the sea too choppy to take off. The plane reached the Tang with eight more flyers, some straddled on the wings. All day the Tang ferried and fished. At dusk the last two dripping aviators were pulled aboard. Of 46 airmen who hit the water during the two days, 28 were rescued, 22 of them by the Tang...
...targets, only to have all 13 prove duds (flaws in the exploder mechanism plagued U.S. subs for two years); of how the Gato fetched up with an unexploded depth charge on its deck, and gingerly set it adrift in a leaky rubber boat; of how the Angler took aboard a batch of refugees which included a two-year-old, half-Filipino boy who was "smoking (and inhaling) a cigar between gulps of his dinner which he was receiving at his mother's breast"; of how the Tautog, with Mohammedan VIPs aboard, swung its nose toward Mecca at prayer time...
...aviation to a billion-dollar U.S. enterprise, with 1,542 planes which fan out over 170,000 miles of routes to every corner of the nation. At peak flying hours (5 to 6 p.m.), an average of more than 500 scheduled airliners is aloft, with some 11,000 people aboard. Day & night there...
...Queen Elizabeth was loading in Manhattan last week, U.S. Customs officers were notified that an automobile about to be put aboard had a curious sag in the rear. Peering beneath, they found 340 lbs. of gold, worth $150,000, strapped under the fenders. They arrested the owner on charges of trying to smuggle the gold...