Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burning wing, Pilot Dave Hissong coolly took his time, retracted his wheels, came down belly-flat in a ditch-scarred field. Steward Frank Gibbs shoved each man as far into the open air as he could. They had not stumbled more than 20 yards when flames swept through the cabin...
...Finally, after the snapping and curling of the forward hawser, three frantic excursions by the rowboat, and the working of winches and propellors, the ship was made sung. Rolling like the master of an old sailing ship, in which school was trained, Commodore Irving came to rest in his cabin and lit one of nine pipes. Unaware of his heroism, the Commodore puffed vigorously and said: "I hope the tugboat strike will be over before the Queen Mary returns." And so he will go down in marine history as the first man to dock an Ocean liner without tags...
...America Line motorship Noordam, with a holdful of reasons why her maiden voyage should be considered an important item of marine intelligence. Second unit of a new Holland-America fleet,* she enjoyed the distinction of being the only transatlantic ship ever built with a private bath in every passenger cabin. A neat combination of freighter and passenger ship, her high-set midship superstructure is calculated to provide first-class passenger comfort at tourist rates ($253 round trip), while her low-slung fore & aft cargo decks make money on freight. The Noordam cost $2,300,000, can carry 9,000 tons...
...airlines of the future, most aeronautical engineers agree, will fly swiftly and serenely far above turbulent weather in the rarefied air of the substratosphere. Already air transports are being built with cabins in which, by supercharging, interior atmospheric pressure approximating that aground can be maintained at substratosphere levels. Mainly responsible for development of a supercharged cabin was the U. S. Army Air Corps. Last week the Air Corps received from President Roosevelt this year's Collier Trophy for "the greatest achievement in aviation whose value has been demonstrated in actual use." Meantime, aeronautical science has its sleeves rolled...
...Myrna Loy) as she arrives in China with a plane full of cholera serum. His reel is sensational because, in making it, Mr. Gable forces Miss Loy to wreck her plane. (In one of the takes for this scene, Miss Loy was trapped in the burning plane's cabin, had to be rescued in earnest by Mr. Gable.) Apologetic but not penitent, Gable pretends to destroy the film. It remains to plague him through frame after frame of realistic action. By the time Myrna Loy has saved Gable's job by direct appeal to his boss, snubbed...