Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's fourth commissioning was spectacular. Naval officers in dress uniform brightened the crowd of 600 special guests on the pier. From the quarter-deck Rear Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton read official orders putting the Constitution into active service. The colors and jack were hoisted, the first watch set. Command of the vessel was turned over to Commander Louis J. Gulliver...
...Conte Grande. His trip was originally intended to be a vacation but President Hoover after re- ceiving the French reply, foresaw where his Secretary of State could be more useful abroad than in his high-ceiled Washington office.* On the Conte Grande a cabin near his B deck suite had been especially fitted out as an office for the Secretary of State who took with him Captain Eugene A. Regnier, his military aide, Allen T. Klots. his special assistant, and George...
...opposite side of the earth, in the Yellow Sea of Wei-hai-wei, the spanky new British submarine Poseidon came spuming to the surface like a dolphin after air. The hatches sprang open. The crew started clambering out. Thirty-one were on deck and 18 below when the Yuta, Chinese merchantman, smacked against the Poseidon's forward starboard side. In two minutes the Poseidon sank in 120 ft. of water...
...ning by the arm, saying: "It is a rule of the Hamburg-American Line that all passengers must sleep in their berths from two to four in the afternoon." From two to four Bachelor Brüning slept in his berth. Husband Curtius said he would sleep in a deck chair, cheated, was caught reading Shakespeare's Macbeth...
...Olympic also figured in the news. On it, last week, Mr. Stillman sailed for Europe, smiling, wishing the newlyweds luck, denying that he would remarry. It was on the deck of the Olympic that Mrs. Stillman was served with her husband's first divorce action in 1920. The same ship carried the Stillmans to Europe for their reconciliation honeymoon in 1926. Asked about her affection for young Fowler McCormick at that time, said...