Word: afloat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said the President, "one bright fellow speaks up and says, 'Well let's just cut out one of the engines; we won't use so much gas.' " This engine, Ike said firmly, is foreign aid, "one of the engines that keep this ship of ours afloat . . . So the rest of the passengers say, 'Well, baloney, you can take away that engine . .. and we are down. We are now in an emergency without the preparation to meet it.' " Ike wondered aloud if "this is getting to be a long speech...
...inflation that swept the Japanese yen from 15 all the way to 360 to the dollar. At the same time the Hauges were reaping a paper harvest of yen, Japanese families, hit with postwar taxes, were living an "onionskin existence," peeling off long-treasured art works to stay afloat...
...editor (John Revelstoke Rathom) who followed the "raise hell and sell newspapers" tradition, raised the Journal-Bulletin's moral sights instead, still sold a lot of papers (1956 combined circulation: 201,789). A journalistic puritan under whose guidance the Providence Journal Co. once kept a rival paper afloat for several months to avoid the evils of monopoly, Sevellon Brown regularly hired bright young men with graduate degrees (and paid so little that many quit after a short hitch), spent much of his time trying to raise the nation's standards of newspapering. Publisher Brown's own standard...
Last week the "forgotten ship" Panaghia dropped anchor in the Israeli harbor. "In all my years afloat," said Captain Koutales, "I have never experienced such treatment before...
While prewar Greek ships were sorrylooking rustbuckets, Niarchos has turned out some of the handsomest merchantmen afloat. To get top seamen, Niarchos pays his Italian, Greek, German and British crews more than they would earn under their own national flags (but less than one-third of the U.S. scale), equips his new tankers with air conditioning, lavish private quarters for all hands, tiled showers, TV, elevators, recreation rooms...