Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abaft the anti-aircraft guns. A petty officer with a megaphone scrambled to the top of the stern range finder. "By the numbers, jump!" he bellowed. "One-two-three-HIPE!!" As one man. 1,300 seamen sprang in the air to land with a shattering crash directly over the cabin of "Ginger" Boyle...
...cast, plays few favorites, finds what plot it can in the personal history of some of its characters, their cat-&-mouse or cat-&-cat relationships. Alec Reade, like Kringelein in Grand Hotel, is a timid soul whose sentence of death has given him his first and last holiday. His cabin mate, "Pal" Turner, is a loud fellow of the baser sort who honestly wants to be friends with everybody. Banker Crowell quickly establishes himself as chairman of all entertainments. "Baby" Weedon has all the men on the ship running after her. The Robinson family invariably wins all the prizes...
...mast of a wireless station, snapped it off, flopped to earth. FLASH! Flames shot high. Said one of the crew of the wireless station, afterward: "There was not a chance for the passengers or the two pilots. There was not a sound or a cry from the cabin...
...built in California. Six of the ships will be Douglas Airliners, a newly developed craft now being tried out by Transcontinental & Western Air. It is said to fly 200 m.p.h. so quietly that passengers can hear the engines of passing planes, can be kept awake by cabin conversations. In tests in thin air over Arizona it took off and flew, fully loaded, on one of its twin engines...
...which boasts the largest wing- area in the U. S. Its new generators can produce enough current to light 100 small homes. Its loudspeaker is 1.600,000 times as loud as the human voice. Its reverberations can kill butterflies, stun birds. Its five operators and pilots converse inside the cabin only by telegraph...