Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy all day over the far reaches of Penobscot Bay, had gradually lifted and faded; about 3 o'clock the watchers saw the top-heavy, bulging, comfortable Presidential yacht coming around the breakwater, could see beyond it the escorting Coast Guard cutter Calypso, sleek, dangerous, moving like a loafing shark...
Cruising down the Potomac on a hot Sunday afternoon, the onetime Coast Guard cutter Milan turned suddenly off course when five tide-spun swimmers were spotted struggling in the water 1 ,000 yards away. As the cutter drew up, lines were thrown overboard. Then the strong arms of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Assistant Secretary Ralph Bard and Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan helped pull the swimmers to safety...
Uses. Last year the State Department dispatched young James Penfield and George West Jr. on the Coast Guard cutter Comanche to establish the first U.S. consulate in Greenland. Through fog to Arsuk Fjord, to Ivigtut and beyond...
Under New York's Baumes (four-times-is-out) law, conviction would automatically jail him for life. Steve Dutton didn't give it a thought. Before the judge he pleaded not guilty: seems he was passing a building in his neighborhood when he remembered that the paper cutter inside was his own property years ago. He broke in, dismantled the 6,000-lb. machine, horse-carted it to a junkman to be sold...
...little white-walled room overlooking Manhattan's Fifth Avenue a bespectacled, white-haired man last week undertook one of the toughest sawing jobs in the world. He was Adrian Grasselly, 58-year-old veteran diamond cutter, one of the few living men who could be entrusted with the job of cutting the famed Vargas Diamond, largest (726.60 carats) known uncut diamond in the world. The diamond, discovered by a farmer in Brazil three years ago, is named for Brazil's President Getulio Vargas. Because there is no market for diamonds that big, Owner Harry Winston, Manhattan jewel merchant...