Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down with President Fry and worked out a settlement as a "family affair." Simultaneously this week a new rash of sit-downs erupted throughout the land, victims including Detroit's Briggs Manufacturing Co. (automobile bodies), Santa Monica, Calif.'s Douglas Aircraft Co., Groton, Conn.'s Electric Boat Co. and Crowell Publishing Co.'s printing plant at Springfield, Ohio...
...Bermuda, up from the new airport on coral-girt DarreH's Island rose the four-motored, 18-ton flying boat Cavalier for its first test flight since arriving in sections from Great Britain two months ago. For 26 minutes the big craft drummed over the harbor at 185 m.p.h. with only its crew aboard. In a few weeks, Imperial Airways will start it buzzing back & forth to the U. S. in a series of tests preparatory to passenger service this summer...
Twenty minutes later, swept almost a mile toward the sea by the outgoing tide, Lambert was rescued by a fishing boat. He still had an arm around Dummatzen. But Dummatzen was dead...
...ceiling lifted again when Boeing's friend Eddie Hubbard contracted to fly the mail from Seattle to Victoria. Boeing got into non-military aviation by furnishing a flying boat which became "the first U. S. plane in international mail service." Next year the company began to ride high as Boeing snagged an Army contract for 200 pursuit planes. Such jobs kept him thriving until 1927, when he again jumped into commercial aviation with what his competitors considered a suicidally low bid for the first Chicago-San Francisco air mail contract. Starting at scratch, he managed to get his planes...
...descriptions of the magical outside world. But when she took him to a secluded pool and jumped in trustingly with nothing on, he decided that innocence disarms and went to say goodby. Lucy did not see why she could not go with him, swam out to the boat after them, scratched and bit while they trussed her up, took her ashore...