Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after a look at the dismantled plant, immediately recalled that, two weeks before, the stonecutting firm of T. C. Diener Co. had also reported that their closed plant, consisting of four buildings full of machinery, had been completely razed. Investigation disclosed that both jobs had been done by a crew of Negro workmen. A trail of canceled checks soon led to their employer, hulking 225-lb. Edward Rockwood...
...Chicago courtroom last week, Defendant Rockwood sat sheepishly silent as Prosecutor C. Vernon Thompson described his unique activities. Until his business slumped last summer, 43-year-old Mr. Rockwood, father of six children, had been a highly respectable wrecking contractor. Hard times set him to stealing and his regular crew asked no questions when he sent them, to dismantle the Diener factory. After moving out safes, typewriters, files and adding machines from the office and $30,000 worth of machinery from the plant, they proceeded on Mr. Rockwood's orders to tear down a three-car garage, a brick...
...hull provide space for 45 passengers by day, can be converted into sleeping accommodation for 26 by night. Fanciest gadget is a lounge table the top of which, lined with mirrors, lifts to expose several wash basins. Aft and below are mail and cargo holds, quarters for the crew of ten. Its four motors mounted on the wings are Wright "Cyclones," 1,000 h.p. each, which give the plane a range of 4,500 miles carrying a payload of 7,500 Ib. and a maximum speed of 200 m.p.h. At its cruising speed, around 150 m.p.h., the 3,465-mile...
...flivver in that direction one spring, through Pennsylvania's hills of coal and slag into the Blue Ridge Mountains and east to Charleston Harbor. From what he remembered most vividly Blume made a composition of contrasts : trains crawling in industrial valleys and a German cruiser's crew doing exuberant calisthenics in the sea breeze off Charleston. To show how exuberant they were he made one or two of them appear to be taking hurdles as high as the crow's nest. His prize-winning picture was therefore thoroughly panned by every unimaginative critic...
Three adventurers-a discredited sea captain (Oscar Homolka), a sniveling, cadging, little cockney (Barry Fitzgerald) and an English remittance man (Ray Milland) whose remittances have stopped coming-commandeer a Sydney-bound schooner, deprived of its crew by plague, and set off for South America to sell their stolen cargo and invest in mines. Their fates and that of Frances Farmer (a studio addition to the passenger list) are determined by a stop-over at an uncharted South Pacific island ruled with a rifle by a religious madman (Lloyd Nolan...