Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dreadnaught nosed out into the Atlantic for her first "shakedown" run after two years in drydock being reconditioned. The cocky little destroyer Taylor served as escort. President Hoover had smooth sailing southeastward for four days. He took long naps morning and afternoon, lounged before a wood fire. On deck he played medicine ball, losing one ball overboard. After dinner (for which he dressed) an orchestra played softly, he attended talking cinema shows (Rain or Shine, The Temple Tower). The third day out the Taylor was to be relieved by the Dupont from Guantanamo. A miniature presidential review was arranged...
...submarine is a utilitarian thing painted red and grey (for visibility against ice), 175 ft. long. Arched across its deck from stern to bow are two braced beams. They resemble sled runners. They really are runners, to enable the vessel to skid against the under side of polar ice. From the blunt, concrete-reinforced bow projects a long tubular feeler like the solitary tusk of the male narwhal. If under the dark ice the ship strikes an object (whale, rock, island, berg) which its great sub- aqueous searchlights do not disclose, the projecting feeler will ram back against compressed...
...ship's deck is a hinged periscope which will yield if struck by a cake of ice. Close by is a flexible trolley to indicate the undersurface irregularities of the ice. Much more important are other outside devices: a conning tower surmounted by a circular saw capable of cutting through 13 ft. of ice; and two thin tubes which, in case the boat is frozen under deep ice, can drill upward 100 ft. to air. Simon Lake, submarine inventor of Stratford, Conn, designed all these devices...
...Lyon) wants to marry the actress. He is unable to do so because he owes a debt of gratitude to her lover (Lewis Stone). These complications are resolved when the older man retires from the situation in a Monte Carlo setting. He is last seen standing on the deck of his yacht, drinking a toast to the young man and the actress who remain ashore...
...halted for some time last week "the British Speed King," Capt. Sir (knighted by George V last week) Malcolm Campbell. Impatiently Sir Malcolm paced the deck of "Britain's fastest ship," the Mauretania, until tugs tugged her off British mud flats, permitted her to reach Southampton...