Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chechoslovakian Trade-Treaty Commission. Consequently, there were on hand only the run-of-the-mill ship-news reporters, a Fox Movietone Newsreel cameraman, and a Wide World photographer named Kenneth Lucas, assigned to pick up a package and get a shot of the Czechs. Photographer Lucas was on the deck trying to find the Commission when he spied a familiar figure rushing down the third-class gangplank. Recognizing Mrs. Lindbergh, he pursued her onto the dock, contrived to get a few blurred shots before the Colonel and his wife, leaving their baggage to be called for later, got into...
...again being partly rebuilt, not in her birthplace Danzig, but at the foot of Manhattan's 46th St.-where, with 350 of her 600 crew sent on part pay to Germany for seven weeks, North German Lloyd officials figured the work could be done cheaper. On the sun deck $100,000 is being spent to provide 500 cruise passengers with a 20 ft. by 28 ft. open-air tiled swimming pool with dressing rooms and showers for 50, a dance floor 20 ft. by 60 ft. raised three feet above the deck and lighted from below. The whole...
...crowded, smelly, temperamental craft. She could make 14 knots on the surface, but her red-enameled Diesel engines shook themselves to pieces so frequently the crew strung up nets to avoid being hit by flying parts. She had a 3-in. disappearing gun that could be coaxed up on deck after great labor, but had a disconcerting habit of vanishing into its compartment without warning, before or after it was fired. Her crew of 28 men and four officers (the hardened Captain was 31 years old) lived in a chamber "about the size of the guest bedroom in a beach...
...Stop New York (Gaumont British) shows what the transatlantic airliner of the apparently near future may be like. "A" deck will have spacious cabins with wardrobes big enough for blonde stowaways like Anna Lee to hide in, "hurricane" decks from which trapped villains may escape, providing scissor-minded child prodigies like Desmond Tester have not been tampering with the parachutes. In the "B" deck dining salon gourmets from Scotland Yard (like John Loder) may have their Martinis mixed, not shaken, and may pick at turbot after having had a try at some clear soup, probably terrapin. The fare will...
...Manhattan. On board were specially-ordered supplies of red carnations, English tea, barreled drinking water, Westphalian hams, steaks, cutlets, liver paste, and 1,049 passengers, some of whom had transferred at the last moment from cabin to tourist class. In a freshly refurbished suite (80-82) on A Deck had crossed not the two people who were to have made the voyage elaborately newsworthy and whose names still headed the official passenger list-Der Herzog und die Herzogin von Windsor-but Socony- Vacuum's Vice President Edwy R. Brown & wife of Dallas...