Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gallstone removed last August, General Atterbury had kept away from his office. For a fortnight he had been cruising off Florida in his yacht Arminia. There the rumors were relayed to him last week. The Arminia put in at Miami, where her master received newshawks on deck, thumped his chest heartily and crowed: "I'm the livest, kickingest person you ever saw. I haven't felt so good since last July...
...they took away Peter's school cap. Faithful Mr. Parrott came back in a little while with a brown felt hat. It was much too big for Peter and settled down over his ears. On the Channel steamer he kept asking questions and was finally persuaded to play deck tennis with Tutor Parrott. Mr. Parrott missed the ring a good many times, and seemed distracted. At Paris the train stopped some distance from the station. Heavily guarded by police and still spouting questions, little Peter of Jugoslavia was rushed to the Paris residence of Jugoslavia's Marshal...
...pictures vividly illustrated lack of police protection for Alexander. After two days of wrangling, the French authorities finally released the films in time to catch the George Washington, due in Manhattan this week. Universal Newsreel barely overtook the steamer at sea, dropped its films from an airplane to the deck. Meanwhile some reels, including Paramount's and Universal's, had been smuggled across the Channel to London, were being shown throughout the British Isles. So impressive were they that New York Times Correspondent Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. found meat for a glowing front-page two-column story...
...Morro Castle's automatic fire alarm system had failed to work. " This statement was not made. During the testimony of Captain Warms on Monday, Sept 10, Mr. Crone asked Captain Warms if the automatic alarm registered. Captain Warms answered that it registered when flames existed on A deck. Mr. Crone asked whether fire was in the staterooms at that time and Captain Warms replied: "Yes, in staterooms on A deck, port side...
Backers of the Terminal's search were Minor Cooper Keith, grandnephew, heir and namesake of the man who founded United Fruit Co., and a salvage company whose president, Thomas P. Connolly, had invented a new kind of diving-suit. Weighing 675 Ib. on deck, the suit has a head and body of steel, with grotesque protuberances for eyes and something that looks like a nose. Of rubber reinforced by interwoven copper strips, the arms and legs become flexible when subjected to high underwater pressure. The two parts of the suit join at the waist instead of around the neck...