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Word: bulkheads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stranger come aboard, no one saw him debark. Police investigation soon revealed that the Captain, a Pole interned at Atlanta during the War on suspicion of being a spy, had made a business of organizing bizarre junkets, soliciting junketeers through newspapers. He had been married three times. Only one bulkhead separated the dead man from his two sleeping children, Valerio, 7, and Nile, 6. His wife Aloha, young and comely, was reported in Hollywood at the time of shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cruise Of The Carma | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...materials might be impregnated. When subjected to heat, the compound is supposed to emit fire-quenching gases. A test reported by the New York Times last week: one-half of a miniature blimp was impregnated with Dr. Eichengriin's solution, shut off from the other half by a bulkhead. The untreated portion was ignited, blazed away in a flash; the treated half remained intact, kept the whole structure aloft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Safer Airmail | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

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