Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to lift that burden his chieftain placed on American taxpayers? Is the new deal to be a dole . . . or some form of bureaucratic collectivism? . . . The Governor may be honestly trying to give us a new deal but he is dealing from the same old deck from which William Jennings Bryan gave the American people so many 'new deals'. . . . Beware, Governor! Mr. McAdoo, Mr. Hearst and Speaker Garner may have stacked the deck...
...they had lost no submarine since 1928, whereas the British Navy had lost three. The French first-class submarine Promethée of 2,000 tons (estimated cost $2,000,000) was maneuvering on the surface of the English Channel near Cherbourg, with several French bluejackets standing on her deck. Suddenly the Promethée began to go down by the stern.. Since her hatches were open, water poured in and she sank like a stone, carrying 62 men to their death. Her commander, a Lieut, du Mesnil, stepped out of the conning tower to see what the trouble...
...Considering the circumstances-that is, a submarine operating on the surface, with her hatches open, and her commander, and others, on deck, and showing no intention of submerging-the most probable cause of sinking is an internal explosion. All submarines give off an odorless gas, hydrogen, when charging batteries, and this gas, when mixed even in small proportions with air, forms an extremely powerful explosive mixture, which might be ignited from a number of causes inside the boat. The resulting explosion might easily have so damaged the hull as to sink the submersible immediately. In our own Navy there have...
Buildings: 6) No. 60 Wall Street, Manhattan, first skyscraper to have double-deck elevators. 7) The dome on the planned Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool. With a 168-ft. diameter, it will be world's biggest. 8) The world's biggest single unit grain elevator at Albany, N. Y., covering eight acres, holding twice as much grain as all the elevators in New York Harbor. 9) The world's largest new type gas tank in Syracuse...
General Houses' homes will be, strictly speaking, made of steel. The frames will be of steel and so will the floors which will be of battle-deck construction. Insulation will make General Houses warm in winter, cool in summer. They will have flat, aluminum painted roofs, many windows. The exterior will be painted. By standardization of parts, numerous models and combinations of rooms can be offered. At present the company has approved various Fisher designs for five-room homes to cost around...