Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there's something about a royalistic weekend in New York that's self-perpetuating--you have the pleasing feeling when it's over that it won't be the last one you'll ever have. For royalists are a tough crew--they've got staying power, and the ability to roll up their sleeves; the pizazz, in short, that carried through Crecy and Agincourt and numerous Senate investigations and one Roosevelt and half of another, up to date. And what revived our flagging faith in our destiny was not the champagne or the swing time or the flash-light bulbs...
Apparently the fuse cap on the shell's nose, which detonates it when it strikes its target, had exploded prematurely. When the smoke cleared, the captain and three members of the Marine gun crew were dead, three others lay dying, ten were injured. The 26-year-old Wyoming, demilitarized and used as a training ship since the London Naval Armament Limitation Conference of 1930, is the Navy's second oldest battleship. A court of inquiry promptly met to investigate the Navy's second fatal explosion on the San Clemente training grounds within seven months. The Navy...
...airport on coral-girt DarreH's Island rose the four-motored, 18-ton flying boat Cavalier for its first test flight since arriving in sections from Great Britain two months ago. For 26 minutes the big craft drummed over the harbor at 185 m.p.h. with only its crew aboard. In a few weeks, Imperial Airways will start it buzzing back & forth to the U. S. in a series of tests preparatory to passenger service this summer...
...Wednesday. On Monday the safety of the platform had been questioned, reinforcing bolts had been put through the brackets which held the four wheels on which the 30-by-60 ft. platform was moved along the rail-girders. On Tuesday, Foreman "Slim" Lambert and his crew had worked all day on the platform. A second platform, not yet in use, was suspended at the first tower on the San Francisco side. Unknown to Lambert, a party of State engineers a few minutes before had pronounced that other platform unsafe, were even then walking out on the bridge to reinspect...
When it was launched at the Century's turn by the gaudiest crew of bigtime promoters in U. S. history, American Can Co. was very nearly a perfect monopoly. It had at the start, thanks to the tireless efforts of Judge William Moore, Daniel Gray ("Tsar") Reid and William Bateman ("Tin Plate") Leeds, over nine-tenths of the country's entire can business. But by the time the trustbusters of Roosevelt I got to work on it, American Can had already destroyed its virtual monopoly by its dizzying prices. Competitors had swarmed in under the "Tin Can Trust...