Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live in. The District of Columbia has piers, at which yachts may be tied up, but the channels need dredging. The only pier with enough water to float Bidou was already rented for $30 per month to John Hays Hammond Jr. for his Ripple. Hence Mr. Moffett had to anchor Bidou out in the Potomac where he could not even have the convenience of a telephone...
When Thomas Montgomery ' Howell felt the tug on his 550-yd. line, it was a half hour before noon. Captain Thompson pulled up anchor and Mr. Howell's fishing launch moved out of the harbor into the ocean. Behind it came the Thalia, Mr. Howell's large yacht...
...Frank Curtis. This looked to Frank Curtis like the hardest job of his life. Grappling lines slipped and snapped, power winches broke. In August the salvage crew was ready to quit. Spitfire Curtis jumped up & down, barked, screamed and swore until they went back to work. In October an anchor chain whacked Frank Curtis across the legs, almost cut them off. Two hours later, with two men holding him upright, he was back on deck directing operations...
...during his speech. Slowly as he spoke the great curtain rolled away disclosing the arched entrance to Queensway. Amid wave on wave of cheering His Majesty drove with the Queen-Empress by his side through the gleaming new arch and down under the Mersey with transatlantic liners riding at anchor over his royal head...
...masters of the situation and kept cargoes moving about as usual. But in San Francisco hardly a vessel could load or unload. Scores of freighters had dumped their cargoes on the docks and sailed away in water ballast. Out in the Bay 89 deep-water ships swung idly at anchor. The Dollar Line had diverted all its trans-Pacific passenger traffic to Los Angeles and the Grace Line had eliminated sailings north to Seattle. The steel doors of the 38 docks on San Francisco's five-mile Embarcadero (see map) had not opened for eight weeks to let a bale...