Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later, an emergency was declared. Ten hours passed before an R.A.F. Coastal Command plane, scouring the sea some 40 minutes out from the Irish coast, spotted traces of oil. Coming down to 100 ft., the pilot saw the dreadful midden of disaster: partly inflated rubber life rafts, remnants of cabin furnishings, handbags, bodies, floating luggage...
...with an unusual sense of excitement. On the submarine's closed-circuit TV screens, the crewmen could see an upward-pointed camera-eye view of an ice pack, lit up by the Arctic's 24-hour-a-day sunlight, like a translucent cloud racing by. In his cabin, a slim U.S. Navy commander wrote out in longhand a couple of messages-one addressed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the White House, Washington, the other to his crew. His ship, he wrote in the crew's message, was about to achieve "goals long sought by those who sail...
...shows may not pack much fun, but they ooze prizes. Winners have carted away $14,000 cabin cruisers, a day's traffic tolls of the Golden Gate Bridge, a thoroughbred entered in the '59 Kentucky Derby. Home participation via postcard is so common that the U.S. post office probably hauls in more loot than the contestants. A quiz sampler...
...Fogh incorporated himself in Liechtenstein as "Internationale Merkur Radio Anstalt," bought an ancient, 100-ton freighter and fixed her up with Panamanian registry, a 36-kw. transmitter, a towering g8-ft. antenna. He tapes programs in a suburban villa near Copenhagen, ferries them out to sea in his own cabin cruiser...
...Wash and dry dishes. F. both. F. dumps garbage, slops and contents of wastepaper baskets; hauls water, splits small wood and brings logs and small wood into cabin for day's fires. Fills kerosene lamps, etc. J. dusts and sweeps, polishes tables, makes beds, replaces burned candles, etc. F. shaves and then both relax. J. does a crossword puzzle and F. makes "log" notes and checks on birds seen during morning...