Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost a thousand miles from Manchuria, in the sprawling, river-muddied harbor of Shanghai, greatest port in all the Orient, lay Admiral Koichi Shiosawa with eleven warships. One of them was the newest type of marine terror, the aircraft carrier Kaga, nestling 60 airplanes on her vast weird deck, smoke pouring out from her strange horizontal funnel...
...while she was studying to be a hospital nurse, she made her stage début in a benefit production. Pleased by her quivering technique, Funnyman Eddie Dowling presently gave her a job in Honeymoon Lane. Singer Smith had barely had time to continue her musicomedy career in Hit the Deck, Flying High, when Fleischmann's Yeast put her on the radio which concealed the comical incongruity between her strong, low sentimental voice and her jellyfish physique...
Their quarters were better than those of most alleged murderers. The Alton (once the old cruiser Chicago) was connected with the shore by a 200 ft. boardwalk, guarded by marines. On her deck had been built a penthouse, bristling with ventilators to cool the neat single cabins within. Each prisoner occupied a room comparable to that on a small liner. The food came from the officers' mess. No third-degree examinations occurred because civilian prosecutors were barred from the Alton. Flowers and messages poured in upon Mrs. Fortescue from the island and the mainland. Her daughter Thalia, staying with friends...
Last week at the memorial services in Frankfurt-am-Main there were no brothers or sisters. Her niece. Princess Victoria Louise, was there with the ex-Crown Prince and Prince Eitel Friedrich. With the death of Sophie there remained in the European deck only 17 queens, ten in play, seven in the discard...
...rescue a world industry from destruction by overproduction. Now, almost a year later, the industry is beyond all question far worse off than before; from opposite sides of the globe rumble ominous rumors of the cartel's imminent dissolution. Last week the man-Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne-on the deck of the Berengaria announced: "I am quite certain that further limitations upon both export and production . . . will be made." But he was never more confident of his plan's ultimate success...