Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commodore. The boss of this crack crew is a ruddy, restive 50-year-old with twinkling china-blue eyes and eloquent white brows, who is more at home in a diving suit or on a burning deck than behind his Washington desk. No Annapolis man, Commodore Sullivan studied architecture at M.I.T., entered the Navy in World War I and stayed...
...same is true also of soccer and lacrosse, both of which are holding practice at Soldiers Field, and of crew; Coach Bert Haines is already working new crews out of Weld Boat House
...seamanship without the help of modern conveniences, and the heavy old cannon that still glowered through the square gun ports were part of a boy's lessons in naval history. To the greenhorn the Conway also looked grimly bare - until he discovered that in exactly ten minutes her crew could let down canvas walls, swing out hundreds of folding desks, blackboards and benches, and turn her decks into floating classrooms for 800 boys...
...evening the new chum's uniform hung on him like a sack. He was run over by the crew of the foretop in a rush for hammocks and, when he staggered to the fo'c'sle with his own bursting hammock, was coldly asked by an officer if he was "carrying guts to a bear." After making up the hammock with non-regulation sheets as large as small sails, he fell out of it twice...
Still vivid in the memory of most Americans is the tragic 1927 sinking of the submarine 54, whose trapped crew died while a rescue fleet vainly tried to raise the ship in no feet of water off Provincetown. Rescue might have been possible if there had been some quick way to cut an escape hatch in the ship. Now such a device has at last been developed. For more than a year the U.S. Navy has been performing wonders in rescue and harbor-clearing work by means of an amazing underwater torch which cuts thick steel plate like cheese...