Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest warships in the world is H. M. S. Nelson* which upped anchor in Portsmouth harbor last week and steamed out to sea at ebb tide. Just at the harbor mouth the 33,500-ton island of grey steel nosed into a bank of soft mud and stuck. On board was the new com mander of Britain's Home Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir William Henry Dudley ("Ginger") Boyle, K. C. B. Along the deck went he to the control tower, to confer with the Commanding Officer Captain Patrick Macnamara, well known in Washington last year as British naval attach...
...Construction and installation jobs would employ 10,000 men for two years. ¶ Required would be 125.000 tons of steel, five miles of anchor chain, 45 miles of cable, five 1,500-ton anchors, large quantities of electric equipment, radio apparatus, beacons, pipe, fittings, etc., etc. ¶ Airline operators would order $10,000,000 worth of new planes for trans-atlantic service as soon as work was begun on the dromes...
Died. Russell Henderson Henderson, 75, retired Scotch-born shipping tycoon, son of the late Founder William Henderson of Anchor Line (now controlled by Cunard), cousin of Great Britain's "Uncle Arthur" Henderson; of heart failure; in Paterson...
Identified in Lloyd's register as the Holmewood of Barbados, owned by Continental Indies Shipping Co., Ltd., the abandoned ship was towed down the river into New York harbor and her cargo placed under guard. As she lay at anchor near the Statue of Liberty she created amazement among the officers and crew of the real Texas Ranger as they steamed in from Galveston...
...tell if he has an anchor tatooed on his chest?" the blonde asks. "Why just use your ... ah ... ingenuity," the master mind replies. To the imaginations of thousands of CRIMSON readers we leave the task of reconstructing the horse-play that ensues. In the lingo of the theatre it "panicked" the Metropolitan audience Friday night...