Word: buoys
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...Biscay in a French blimp. He had taken the controls himself for a bit. The next day the blimp thought it saw a submarine on the seafloor near Penmarch Point, where a U-boat had periodically attacked shipping entering the Loire's mouth. The blimp put down a buoy. Airplanes and sub-chasers dropped depth charges. An oil slick showed, but the Allies did not claim a submarine. After the war divers went down off Penmarch Point, and there they found a submarine...
There are some points in the Western Hemisphere, said Franklin Roosevelt, that have nothing to do with the defense of the Americas. There are some other points outside the Hemisphere that are vitally important. It is impossible, said he, to draw a line and put a buoy...
...Anacostia River near Washington's Navy Yard, engineers tested fluorescent buoys to be used as markers for alighting seaplanes. Having no hot filaments to burn out, fluorescent lamps (coated inside with powders which shine by electrical agitation) are durable as well as efficient. The buoy lamps are carried on inflated floats shaped like doughnuts, which contain short-wave radio receivers so that the lamps can be turned on & off by remote control from shore...
...word extemporaneous statement to the press, tall, blend, handsome President W. Russell Bowie, Jr. (pronounced "Buoy") lashed back at Miss Sheridan saying loftily, "As a graduate of a remote Texas Kinder garden School, Miss Sheridan is not qualified to offer any intelligent criticism of the Lampoon, which eaters to a somewhat different class. In view of this, Miss Sheridan's opinion of the Lampoon is of supreme indifference to its editors...
...will not let Germany have any of its helium (trapped in subterranean rocks in Utah and Texas) to buoy dirigibles which, commercial now, might become military. Last week Secretary of State Hull released 220,000 cubic feet to Germany's neighbor Poland, whose favor is currently courted by the dictatorships & democracies. Stated purpose: stratosphere balloon ascension...