Word: decking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plungers & Necklines. Triumphantly, last week, he opened for business. Thousands of suckers who had queued up at shoreside water-taxi landings stood shoulder to shoulder all night long on the Lux's casino deck. The ship's bingo corner, its 14 crap tables, 150 slot machines, twelve roulette wheels, five poker games, were busy until dawn. Order was kept by 26 polite, tough "masters-at-arms," i.e., seafaring bouncers. A band played and lush ladies with plunging necklines wandered about selling cigarets. Tony expansively predicted that nobody could touch...
...West rushed this terrible news to the outside world. Covering the main deck with swathes of freshly cut grass, Pilot Marsh took aboard some 50 of the wounded survivors, ordered his engineer to get up a head of steam, drove his vessel from the mouth of the Big Horn to Bismarck, Dakota Territory, in 54 hours- at the unprecedented speed of 13 miles an hour. The local telegraph office had the news within minutes of the Far West's arrival. The next morning the world at large had it-Bismarck, D.T., July 5, 1876: General Custer attacked the Indians...
...other witnesses and experts double-checked the findings. From a bed in the Reading Hospital, T.W.A. Captain Richard Brown, the plane's sole survivor, said that smoke swirling up through the baggage hatch was so intense that it was impossible to see the pilot across the flight deck, that he had as a last resort attempted to land blind...
...Public Relations in 1945, Annapolisman Miller has behind him 20 years of naval flying, four books on aviation. No armchair officer until he became the Navy's pressagent, able, handsome "Min" Miller squeaked through both the Akron and Macon disasters in the '30s, was both flying and deck officer before the Navy discovered that he had a way with publicity...
...leaf from their sailor father's logbook. With 30 other girls of the Windsor Sea Rangers Troop, they went down to the sea for a few days in a motor torpedo boat. Elizabeth, 20, lit the galley fire, peeled potatoes, made breakfast. Margaret Rose, 15, scrubbed the deck, polished up the brass...