Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find breweries, Mr. Dengler advises trailing "trucks delivering wort* or other supplies. Various expedients may be used. Officers have used a pail of sand fastened to the axle. A hole in the bottom and plug with a string attached to the wheel completes the outfit which makes the sand trail when the truck starts. Others have taken speedometer readings to get an idea as to the distance covered. ... A man or boy on a bicycle can follow a truck without suspicion...
...foggy night last June the Fairfax of Merchants & Miners Transportation Co. rammed, exploded and sent to the bottom of Massachusetts Bay the gasoline tanker Pinthis (TIME, June 23). Fire and water killed 50, including all hands on the Pinthis. Wild tales by semi-hysterical passengers landed in Boston prompted the U. S. Steamboat Inspection Service to file four charges against Captain Archibald H. Brooks, master of the Fairfax: 1) excessive speed in a fog; 2) violation of pilot rules; 3) unskillfulness; 4) negligence. His trial by a Federal board of inspectors began in Boston where local feeling was strongly against...
Rolling at anchor in a pea-soup fog, the Italian salvage ship Artiglio lay off Cape Finistere last week and plumbed the depths. Steamers passing in the nearby trade lanes hooted mournfully but the Artiglio paid little attention. She was hunting one of the richest prizes of the ocean bottom...
Last week the Italian salvage ship Artiglio, fitted with all the latest scientific inventions for deep-sea diving, began cruising about the spot fixed by Captain Hedbach, sounding the bottom methodically, inch by inch. They struck a ship, 400 ft. down. Rough sea held up operations for several days, then a steel diving shell was slung over the side, equipped with oxygen tanks, a telephone, inch-thick glass observation windows. Youngest of the Artiglio's divers, Alberto Bargellini, went down. Director of Operations Alberto Gianni hung breathlessly on the other end of the telephone. Tense minutes of waiting. Director...
Director Alberto: "Are you on the bottom...