Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tanker-is rapidly lifting her cargo of Venezuela crude. A muffled, methodical, pumping, pumping, pumping sound, and a shimmying, twelve-inch, flexible, metallic, rubber hose, extending overside from her pipe line on deck to a connection on the dock, is all that is evident as this 100,000-barrel monster serenely discharges herself of a valuable oil cargo, and pumps it into storage tanks on shore, from where it goes to the stills and eventually becomes...
...publicity picture of a President on vacation in Florida, hired the Goodyear dirigible Defender and sent its Mayor C. H. Reeder and other potent citizens flying down the coast to the Hoover offshore fishing grounds. The Defender dipped low over the Saunterer, dropped a pouch on its deck containing a hail-and-farewell message from Mayor Reeder to the President. Only thus did Miami get into the Hoover holiday news...
...Deck" now playing at the B. F. Keith Memorial Theatre is one of the more successful "talkie" musical comedies. In consideration of the large number of stage conventions that such a production must cope with, the present play at Keith's has made a successful transition. There are times when the scope of the camera is sacrificed for stage effects, ostensibly to add the atmosphere of an actual review, and in these instances the picture gains nothing but incongruity. Fortunately these lapses are infrequent and the action moves along smoothly enough...
...main point that "Hit the Deck" brings out is the possibilities that the musical comedy has in the talking pictures. The absence of shifting scenes and the great range of situations gives an advantage, that the legitimate stage cannot hope to rival. Moreover, a judicious use of the camera makes it easily possible to look at the various scenes from a great variety of interesting angles without the discomfort of having to crane one's neck beyond the sides of the corpulent lady that always sits in the next...
...around the Norvegia were herds of seal, flocks of penguin. Unaccustomed to man and hence unafraid of him, they afforded the Norvegia's gunners easy, close-range targets. It was no trick to pile the deck with dead creatures...