Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hideout and bring him home to testify in the Teapot Dome trials. All failed. Meanwhile French newspapers, which described him as a multi-millionaire oil king, generated waves of rumor about him-that he had sneaked back to the U.S. as a member of a steamship's crew, that U.S. authorities had tried to kidnap him at the order of President Coolidge...
...effects of shipboard merrymaking, many of the 512 passengers-more than 80% of them Americans-never heard the cries of alarm. Some who did groggily dismissed them as the noise from another of the Noronic's boisterous parties. Overwhelmed by the flash fire's speed, the skeleton crew aboard the ship (30 out of 173) fought the fire for 13 minutes before sending an alarm to the Toronto Fire Department. Said one passenger later: "They might have been trying to put out hell with their fountain pens...
...sent out by the sub itself, false alarms could easily be caused by whales or schools of fish. But far more baffling were the cases in which a different sound impulse was recorded. This, it seemed, might be the enemy's own detection device at work. Many a crew was called to battle stations ready for deep-sea combat, only to learn that the signals had been lost. It was most confusing...
...boom began at Leduc, 50 miles from Redwater, where the spouting of oil in February 1947 led to the proving of a field with an estimated reserve of 250 million barrels. Then, last Oct. 1, an Imperial crew of wildcatters struck oil on a Redwater farm...
After several test dips and three days' delay because of rough water, Barton clambered through the 15-inch porthole in the rust-streaked white ball, and made the plunge for the record. He was in constant telephone communication with his surface crew. His comments, amplified topside by loudspeakers...