Word: decking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Idly she rode, her 12,900 ft. of sail furled. The crew were going leisurely through the routine chores of a ship in port. On the quarter deck was James Percy Ault, master of arts, magnetician, the Carnegie's commander in all the oceans for the past 13 years. He was overseeing the storage of a load of gasoline...
...witnessed the parade when it passed scheduled points. As for the hall being half-filled, this is another untruth. It was well filled but not packed and that I feel due to another last minute change in plans. The President was to have spoken in the open from the deck of The Greenbrier and amplifiers had been placed at a cost of $750 at the Ohio River waterfront for the purpose of enabling the crowds to hear him. Then the President did not speak at the waterfront due to the heavy rain and comparatively few people learned in time that...
...loll on the deck of a tanker, coatless, hatless, collarless, vestless, and with no photographers about-ah boys! that is an ideal holiday for a politician. Most people think of a tanker as a dirty old tub. It is nothing of the sort. The food is excellent, and the sleeping accommodations as good as on any liner...
...Last week the New Yorker, Manhattan weekly smartchart, told how a gentleman aboard the Mauretania en route for Manhattan last June, spent the better part of four afternoons on a sequestered deck-bench reading Authoress Delmar's Loose Ladies. The reader was John Pierpont Morgan...
...Captain Bingham's explanations were unnecessary. The air was filled with the roar of drills, and great gaps in the deck testified to the one-time existence of smoke stacks...