Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long, bare room in the Portsmouth Navy Yard Administration Building last week, four white-gloved officers of the U. S. Navy inquired into the sinking of the U. S. submarine Squalus (TIME, June 5). Before the board of inquiry sat the 33 survivors, including the lost boat's square-chinned, grave-eyed commander, Lieut. Oliver F. Naquin. Absent: the 26 who died...
Yale has done well against its opponents this spring, but the times of the Harvard crew have been consistently as good or better. The fact that Charley Ruprecht, regular number six man in the Blue boat and only other oarsman with varsity four-mile experience, will be unable to row, is going to make Yale even more of a question mark than ever. His place has been taken by George Vietor...
...belly in his submerged sub, Barney Connett bored his way from Michigan City to Chicago (63 miles) in 10 hrs. 30 min. Last week he was testing a two-way radio with two stations on shore. His motor brushes burned out, his craft stalled. "Send out a boat!" radioed Submariner Connett. "Send out a boat before I have to bail...
...spring of 1936, as the Yale boat race approached, a panicky Harvard crew decided it could not win without inspiration: Since most members of the crew liked to gloat over Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates, which runs daily in the Boston Herald, they hit on the idea of asking him to send them a picture of one of his luscious, semi-nude female characters. Cartoonist Caniff obliged with a sketch of a girl named Burma. Harvard won by six lengths...
...Electric Boat Co.: $8,811,000 for three submarines...