Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rattling Ships? The decks and super structures of such mighty ships as the Majestic and Leviathan rip slightly during heavy storms. William Hovgaard (Mass. Institute of Technology) advised marine engineers, who must figure tearing stress of storms, to use more rivets on their ships and to strengthen the corners of deck houses...
...picture by a child prodigy. Last year's prodigy was long-legged Joan Manning Sanders, 17. This year's prodigy was 16, Victor Albert Ledger, employed by day as a delivery boy in Covent Garden. He submitted a picture of two drunken 18th Century sailors on the poop deck of a schooner, which was instantly accepted...
...capital's first cars. Under the chaperonage of Secretary of War William Howard Taft they, with others, made a junket together to the Orient. When their home-coming steamer docked at San Francisco, a newshawk spotted a very dapper young man busily engaged with bags and grips on deck while a pert and pretty girl sat on a trunk whistling at him the then popular tune, "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You." Alice Roosevelt and Nicholas Longworth were married in 1906 in one of the grand est White House weddings ever held...
...full speed with blankets, tents, medical supplies. The aircraft carrier Lexington raced out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at 28 knots, outdistanced her destroyer convoy. Next day, 150 miles off the coast of Central America, she swung into the wind and a covey of fire planes roared off her flying deck. In a little more than four hours they landed in Managua with physicians, surgeons, loads of urgently needed anaesthetics. (By the previous midnight, four Navy surgeons had performed more than 500 operations, mostly without anaesthetics...
Perpetually sunburned to the color of a mahogany deck, his whitish hair tossed back like spray from a speed-boat's bow, famed Boatbuilder Gar Wood of Detroit last week stepped into his 2,200 h. p. Miss America IX at Miami Beach. After running a mile up and down Biscayne Bay at an average speed of 101.154 m. p. h. he got out, remarking: ''Conditions are ideal. I can run faster than that...