Word: bunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officers' living quarters are on the starboard side, crew's on the port. Each room is about 8 by 10 ft., fitted with two pairs of double-decked, canvas-bottomed bunks and locker space. Ordinarily two watches of men will be carried, two men sharing a bunk in turn to save weight. (Normal flight crew of the Akron: eleven officers & 8 men plus pilots of planes carried aboard.) An innovation on dirigibles: each room has a floor register to admit hot air from the engine rooms...
Despite the space-economy that dictates bunk-sharing, there are three separate messrooms, for officers, chief petty officers, crew. Chairs and tables are made of aluminum. In the galley is a cookstove weighing only 110 lb., burning propane gas. Also in the galley (as in the toilets) is a capacious sanitary garbage reservoir to hold refuse until it can be dropped harmlessly...
...Thorshavn, Faroe Islands, Eskimo Otto Knudsen saw his first cinema, went violently cinemad. Several powerful companions had to hold down, strap to a steamer bunk and convey to Copenhagen for treatment Eskimo Otto Knudsen...
Chillicothe. Serious fault Dr. Van Waters found with the Federal Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, where housing conditions were reported "in poor repair, crowded, unsanitary and not fire proof." Children were thrown into the guard house for "possessing a 2? stamp . . . talking in mess line . . . concealing an apple in bunk . . . kicking a refuse can . . . stealing five eggs." To the Commission's charge of poor equipment Warden Albert MacDonald of the reformatory pleaded "I'm guilty, but not to blame." But vigorously did he deny that his discipline was too severe. Said he: "An aged woman from California...
...Thurlow Burton was finishing his expensive dinner in the grill. Waiter Guiseppe Ziemssen was hovering for the tip. Beautiful but harebrained Mrs. Gilpin was sulking in her cabin. Her would be lover Major Wandrell was looking for her. Moses Vierstein, cloak & suit man, second class passenger, lay in his bunk wondering why he was not a success. All of them felt the far away shudder, noticed the engines had stopped, wondered...