Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Short time ago the small (6,000 tons) super-efficient German cruiser Karlsruhe dropped anchor in Tanga harbor. Seldom nowadays has a German Consul on the east coast of Africa opportunity to feast his visiting compatriots, and Consul Speiser made the most of it. In Tanga Herr Speiser prepared a huge banquet for the officers of the Karlsruhe, invited all Tanga's remaining German colonists, piled the long table with a little forest of slender Rhine wine bottles...
...Martin bomber for parachute tests, with 200-lb. dummies secured in the bomb rack beneath the fuselage. About 100 ft. aloft, the parachute of one of the dummies worked loose, streamed aloft, was jerked full open by the wind. Down snapped the nose of the plane as if an anchor had suddenly been dropped. The short dive wrecked the ship, set it afire, seriously injured Lieut. Commander Oscar W. Erickson and his two assistants...
...short time we shall attach this notable invention to a balloon." said a Siemens & Halske spokesman. "We shall anchor the balloon above Berlin at an altitude of 3.000 feet. Think of it! An entire city of 4.000.000 souls will hear whatever is played or spoken with perfect distinctness...
Count Felix ("Sea-Devil") von Luckner weighed anchor on his four-masted schooner Mopelia, set sail for a two-month cruise in the West Indies. Aboard were 46 small boys whose parents are paying $1,500 per boy to have the Count instil in their children "a love of the sea." Aboard also were talking cinema photographers, newsmen, feature writers, Countess von Luckner. Fire in the galley delayed the Mopelia's start 24 hours...
...further away. After one such disappearance the pursuers gave the animal up, thought it had drowned. Hours later, a fisherman inbound off Sea Gate, some seven miles from the bull's dive, beheld a horned creature swimming out to sea with the tide. The fisherman approached, threw an anchor rope, caught and towed the beast, still belligerent, to shallow water at Coney Island. To get the animal into an S. P. C. A. ambulance required two ropes, 18 policemen...