Word: craft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less heroic than the captains who go down with their ships are the radio and wireless operators who stand by their instruments to the last, tapping out distress signals. There is always the chance that another craft just over the horizon will pick up the little clicking cries that tell the name of the disabled ship, the latitude and longitude of its position. Often the rescuer will arrive in time to save those who have been dropped over the side of the sinking vessel in bobbing lifeboats. Among them he probably will not find the wireless operator who has held...
...burning yacht is a sorry sight. The scene in Sydney was doubly sorry because the yacht was the Marabel, a pleasure craft which had just been remodeled as a hospital ship and given by Miss Susan Dwight Bliss of Manhattan to the hospital at Indian Harbor, Labrador, a unit of Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfells famed and farflung medical missions. The Marabel was laden with winter supplies for hard-working doctor- preachers. The women burned were Grenfell volunteers, the Misses Harriot Houghteling of Chicago, Ill., and Margaret Pierce of Haverford...
...navigation from an affair of iron or copper tubs driven by handscrews to a science of military importance. They had heard how he ventured down under the Passaic River's surface in one of his first models, with a boy to steer while he himself manned the pumps. When craft failed to reappear, divers had rescued Inventor Holland and the boy from the river bottom. The imperfect submarine had been hoisted up, dragged ashore, abandoned. Inventor Holland's late fame had obscured the failure of his first experiments. The Passaic River had changed its course, piling silt upon the abandoned...
...feet long, driven by compressed air motor. The significant features of the Holland experiments were the in troduction of a gasoline engine and of internal ballast tanks to admit and lower the ship's buoyance so that she could bs steered bottom-ward by horizontal rudders. The Holland type craft was first adopted by the British Navy...
Precautions? When U. S. President Calvin Coolidge issued invitations to the Parley (TIME, Feb. 21), he stressed an intent to extend the 5-5-3 Washington Treaty ratio to cover not only capital ships (as at present) but auxiliary craft as well. Mere "extension" seemed not to call for the same amount of preliminary sounding out which would have been advisable had a wholly new problem been up for consideration. Thus President Coolidge is reputed to have entered the affair with no more than routine caution...