Word: afloat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heavy rains swelled the rivers over their banks. As a result, parts of the region had to be labelled "disaster areas." The members wore life preservers to keep themselves afloat and protect themselves against ramming into rocks...
...battalion of Marines is afloat in the Mediterranean, ready for any fire alarm. A battalion of Marines has just completed Arctic exercises in Labrador-for no one knows where Marines might go next. Besides the First Division in Korea, the corps has two trained divisions, each with its air arm, waiting stateside for trouble-the Second at Camp Lejeune, N.C., the Third at Camp Pendleton (see color pages), Calif. Boot camps at Parris Island, S.C. and San Diego are hup-reeping steadily away at rebuilding civilian youths to the sunburned, stiff-backed Marine mold, and pumping them into the service...
...clear that the quintuple fumbles on the C-119 had kept K-F afloat. Last week Kaiser reported that K-F was in the black for the first time in four years, with a third-quarter net of $344,064. All the profit was due to defense work, chiefly the C-119 contract; K-F's auto operations lost $175,094 in the quarter. In the first nine months of 1952, said Kaiser, the company lost $8,700,000 on $98 million in auto sales, whereas on $17 million more in defense work it netted...
...four years, less two days (which he still begrudges), King commanded "the fleet"-which actually grew into a dozen fleets, the mightiest assemblage of sea power, afloat and on the wing, that the world has ever seen.* No service commander had more to do with the winning of World War II. None showed keener strategic vision, or made fewer spectacular mistakes. None is so little known, and for that, King himself is mostly to blame. Now 74, weakened by a stroke five years ago, he is anxious to find his niche in history, and so has collaborated with Walter...
...important duty of all is to try to keep all three division afloat. As I said when I resigned this summer, I feel that I myself would not be the best man to preside over the reorganization that will be necessary in the department of architecture. That, in fact, is why I resigned...