Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that point only 47 ft. of cable were left on the winch above. The barge cap tain ordered that no more be paid out. The bathysphere was kept at the new record depth for five minutes. "I'll tell the world," said Dr. Beebe, after he crawled out on deck, "that this is the last time I'll attempt record-breaking dives...
This colloquy took place one day last week over a telephone cable connecting blonde, comely Gloria Hollister on the deck of a barge with the sturdy little steel ball that was taking William Beebe and Otis Barton to a greater depth in the sea than man had ever reached before...
...hunch, he said later, that he had better not go down any farther. While he was yammering excitedly into the mouthpiece, Mr. Barton exposed 25 ft. of cinema film and took five stills on supersensitive plates. Soon the dripping ball was on the barge deck again and the divers popped out. Said Dr. Beebe: "I have never seen so much stuff in my life, and new stuff, too. It is the silliest thing in the world to attempt to describe it in a few words...
Bottom of the Deck...
...Power and Light Co. The idea of forcing a transaction such as they did and allowing not one cent for the stockholders is one of the greatest pieces of economic injustice that even the New Deal, whose new dealers are very apt to deal from the bottom of the deck, has done. It only goes to show the great self-satisfaction and self-esteem of Mr. Lilienthal to send you the telegram which he did as though the mere fact that the details of robbery were made public justified the robbery...