Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest airplane yet constructed in the U. S., Boeing's "314" is the first of six Atlantic Clippers for P. A. A. Among its features new to passenger aircraft are: 1) a "flight deck" for the twelve-man crew as big as the total inside area of the biggest U. S. land transport now flying; 2) engines, reached by a catwalk through the wings, behind which an engineer can stand to mend fuel lines, change spark plugs in flight; 3) unlike any other flying boat, once in the water it will remain there and, like a ship, emerge only...
...Broadcast of 1938 (Paramount) is the annual Paramount song & dance, staged this year on a fancily streamlined ocean liner with raucous, red-nosed W. C. Fields giving the orders. Shipshape when Great Man Fields is on deck, it lists badly whenever he goes below...
However, William H. Button, president of the American Society for Psychical Research, has remained faithful to Margery. Last week the A. S. P. R. announced the results of clairvoyance tests made with Margery, using the honor cards of an ordinary deck.* In the first series of 25 she got 22 right. In the second, all 25 right. In the third, 24 out of 25. In the fourth, all 25. Total score...
...time, life may seem like Hell; and some sea-change in men or matter may, anywhere, any time, startle any man into his creative senses. Into the roomy holds of these seagoing truths Poet Pound crowds everybody and everything he most abhors or admires, pops the stowaways on deck whenever they call for an airing...
...were the Leviathans final indignities. The two masts that once reached for the sky were bobbed 78 ft. to fit them under the Firth of Forth Bridge's 150-ft. arch. Ten feet were lopped off each of her three funnels-the debris, good scrap, lashed to the deck for the voyage. While reporters tramped through three years of dust on a last inspection trip, careless blacksmiths started a small fire. Someone had recently stolen two big paintings. Then her imported seamen began negotiating for the same wage as the U. S. crew, delayed her last departure from...