Word: bulkheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that awaited him-sat still, calm, relaxed, happy; his hair slicked back, black doughnut circles gone from his eyes. He wore loose grey tweeds, a light blue shirt, striped blue-on-blue tie, gold collar pin. Sallow Harry Hopkins sat near by against the wardroom's green-grey bulkhead, eyes narrowed watchfully except when he twitched a smile at a face he knew. From the table's green felt top the President picked a Camel, lit it, stuffed it with his thick awkward fingers into his ivory holder. He hadn't any news, he said...
...firing speed with the big gun. . . . We might get up as high as 30 a minute." Any such rate of fire would take some doing. Two men load and fire the 75. The loader has to kneel in a tiny steel coop. Between the breech and a bulkhead, he has about three feet in which to work. When the gun recoils, he has something less than two feet. At 30 rounds a minute, the loader must, every two seconds, extract a 75-mm. shell casing from a semiautomatic breech, allow a split second for the gases to be blown...
...Johannesburg to persuade the crusty British South African (DeBeers) diamond syndicate to step up its ailing sales with a U. S. advertising campaign. At Lumbo, Mozambique, his Imperial Airways flying boat smacked head-on into a jetty in landing, killing two passengers and flinging Adman Lauck against a bulkhead with such force that his pipe was split and a section driven an inch-deep into his tongue. Dumped into the harbor by a steward, he lost his life preserver, was rescued, later found the harbor was infested with sharks. Not until three months after he landed the $500,000 diamond...