Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading Russian ships; the Russians shot at anything they could see. First casualty was the Oslyabya. Pounded by six Japanese cruisers, her guns went silent one by one. The jar of each Japanese hit was like "hundreds of iron rails . . . dropped from a great height upon the deck." As she heeled over, her captain, his bald head bleeding, shooed his men overboard, roared at them to swim away from the ship. He was still on the bridge when she turned turtle...
...accomplished Able Seaman. Many authorities blamed this situation in part for the Morro Castle disaster. Last June, Congress passed the Copeland Sea Safety Bill, which went into effect Dec. 26. The bill specifies such limitations as an eight-hour, three-watch day, that 65%, of the deck force have A. B. certificates, that 75% be U. S. citizens. With many of the new rules both shipowners and seamen are pleased. With one clause, however, U. S. sailors are vehemently dissatisfied. This is the clause that substitutes a continuous discharge book for the old haphazard papers. The Department of Commerce started...
...hurricane batters the Cyclone's, superstructure to pieces. When they reach the Greek steamer after twelve hours, its hysterical crew refuse to come on deck to take the towing hawser. Finally coaxed out the next morning they bungle the job and the hawser, worth 50,000 francs, breaks within an hour. When a second hawser breaks, the Greek crew beg frantically to be taken off. Captain Renaud refuses, and the Greek ship sends out wild messages that the Cyclone has sunk. The Cyclone's, smashed radio transmitter prevents cursing Captain Renaud denying the charge, and while the furious...
...Occasionally the force of his anecdotes is somewhat weakened by the necessity of bowdlerizing 'navy lingo into such terms as "simian-faced son of a spinster," or "blood-stained Bulgarians." Sailor Smith spent the War in "Trousers Pulling Down Contests" ("the officer whose brace buttons first touched the deck lost the contest") with his brother officers in the wardroom. Between times he commanded armed merchant cruisers, aircraft carriers. The War over, he hitched up his trousers and went ashore to preside over the Royal Naval College at Greenwich...
...great and remarkable as was his industry. Most of "Today's" fluent stream was spoken into Dictaphones, which Mr. Brisbane had installed even in his limousine and on planes and trains. Often the "Today" column would be dictated as Mr. Brisbane's car stood on the deck of the ferry taking him from Manhattan to his New Jersey estate. The speed with which he learned to dispose of journalistic chores left him plenty of time to devote to his financial and real estate interests...