Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband had been sitting in the dark on the Penguin's deck. Barbara was in bed. Two men approached in a canoe, asked to be taken with a wounded companion to South Norwalk, Conn. Mr. Collings demurred. The men boarded the Penguin, started it, ordered Mrs. Collings down into the cabin. Later Mr. Collings went to the cabin, kissed his sleeping daughter, went out without taking his pistol or knife which lay there. After some time the Penguin stopped. Mrs. Collings thought they were now off the Connecticut shore of the Sound. She heard a struggle...
Seabury investigators discovered that David Maier had sailed on the Bremen with the Mayor last month, had occupied an A deck cabin close to his. They also found that he had been given free passage, presumably for booking the Walker party on a German line. The Mayor's passage had been paid for, apparently, but not by the Mayor so far as accountants could find...
...fleet of cargo carriers, S. S. Edgewater is no ordinary ship. Tidewater tars would not recognize her as she passes, propelled by silent turbines, under the low bridges of the New York State waterway. Her pilot houses drop into shaft-like wells, smoke stacks fall flush to the deck, masts are hinged and lowered by hand-all extraordinary sights on a vessel 300 ft. long, with 43 ft. beam, cargo space...
...came, the silver ship, largest ever built, outwardly completed, would have about 5,500,000 cu. ft. of helium in her twelve gas cells (capacity 6,500,000 cu. ft.), more than enough to make her buoyant. Handling-lines manned by workmen would hold her fast to the concrete deck of the dock. Under the ship's blunt nose, with its shiny metal tip projecting 75 ft. overhead, was to be a flag-draped wooden platform, festooned with microphones, crowded with bigwigs of the Navy and of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. There would sit Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest...
...room are in the form of Zeppelins. Conversely, most of the Goodyear blimps were named for a yacht which has defended the America's Cup (Puritan, Volunteer, Mayflower, Defender, Vigilant). President Litchfield frequently rides in the blimps, which sometimes land on his grounds, once picked him from the deck of a liner, once took him from trainside in the mountains of California. But he has never flown in a Zeppelin...