Word: compartmentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Prinz Eugen, a fast and tough 10,000-ton cruiser, had slipped out of Brest with the battleships. She could be a scourge to Atlantic convoys. Last week First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander announced that a 10,000-ton German cruiser, apparently the Eugen, had taken...
Here are the facts: 1) There were seven pieces of small hand luggage (not 13). 2) I was forced to abandon the personal effects of my wife, three children and myself in Bulgaria with an infinitesimal chance of ever seeing them again or being recompensed by our Government as this...
Given a month's leave, he tried in Cairo to bum a ride to the U.S. with William C. Bullitt aboard a bomber. Bullitt said there was no room. But not for nothing had Correspondent Allen been able to talk the British into letting him become the Fleet'...
Two days later came a few more details. The Kearny had got to Iceland. The U.S. public had assumed that there were no casualties. Now it learned that eleven of the Kearny's crew were "missing," presumably trapped in a ruptured watertight compartment. Barring a miracle, they were dead...
Southern rail operators expect to comply without too much difficulty. "Equal accommodations" in day coaches, said one spokesman, could be provided by movable partitions, as well as by the present method, and some similar arrangement might be worked out for Pullmans. The roads had been expecting this decision for some...