Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Batory and her sister ship the Pilsudski (TIME, Sept. 23). Both were built by Italy in Trieste's Monfalcone shipyards in exchange for $6,000,000 worth of Polish coal. The Batory has "tourist-top" rates ($176), space for 760 passengers, last week carried 266 and a crew...
Last April 1 Marstrand Fishing Co. at Grimsby ordered Captain George Black Osborne and a crew of four to "test the engines" of Girl Pat, a brand new 130-ton motor trawler with auxiliary sail. Once outside the harbor, Girl Pat made a beeline for the south. Two days later she put in at Dover, dropped the engineer, picked up another, set out again at once. On April 12 she appeared at Corcubion, Spain, badly damaged by storms. Going ashore, the crew had her repaired, bought $1,175 worth of provisions, sent the bill to the owners at Grimsby...
...meanwhile, was rolling slowly down the African Coast. She went aground on Capo Blanco. The crew went ashore for assistance, returned to find thieves had stolen all their food and clothing. Somehow they floated Girl Pat again. Last week they wallowed into Dakar, French Senegal, for supplies. The French port authorities debated nabbing her but decided to wait for definite orders. Before these came, Girl Pat slipped out of the harbor in the teeth of a gale. Behind her in the hospital she left her mate, who said nothing...
...Milles worked four years at his studio in Cranbrook Academy of Art at Bloomfield Hills, near Detroit, to make a full-scale model which was shipped in sections to St. Paul, where the finished statue's 98 onyx blocks were carved and carefully lifted into place by a crew of workmen. The statue's turntable was motivated by a one-half h. p. motor which slowly swings the Indian 90° to the right in one hour, then 90° to the left next hour. From the second floor level of the concourse surrounding the figure, four...
...stand the strain of seeing his car behind the leaders, jumped in to drive himself. He finished third. With less than 100 miles to go, Meyer had a five-lap lead. Adapting his pace to that of his nearest rivals, whose progress was signalled to him by his pit crew, Meyer held his speed till five miles from the end, then reduced it to 98 m.p.h. to save gas. With one pint of gas left in his tank, he finished one lap ahead of Ted Horn of Los Angeles...