Word: derelicts
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...VOYAGE-Heinrich Herm-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A luxury liner strikes a floating derelict and the characters wilt like dress shirts. Good second-rate thriller made slightly indigestible by Teutonic philosophizing...
...knew how to get it off. That was what Philadelphia's Harbor Patrol was for. Four miles downstream the police boat Blankenburg, with 17 patrolmen aboard, put out to the rescue. An hour's churning through the ice-choked river brought it abreast of the derelict. Glowing with humane sentiments, Patrolman Edward Corliss crawled out on the ice. The dog snapped and snarled. Rescuer Corliss toppled into the freezing Delaware. His 16 comrades made a double rescue...
...Bowery bum died of malaria in Manhattan. He must have just come from the tropics, reasoned Chief Medical Examiner Charles Norris, and casually noted that the derelict had been a narcotic addict. Another Bowery bum died of malaria, and another, and another. Dr. Norris called his assistants together, ordered: "There's a carrier loose down around Park Row. Watch...
...knowing what to do with the derelict Trust, bankers called in the great engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter to find out whether it should be salvaged or scrapped. A younger brother and junior partner of the founder Hobart Porter was assigned the job. Blond, dapper, fond of horses and tennis, Seton Porter graduated from Yale in 1905. A good engineer, he was assistant manager of a construction company on the West Coast before he joined his brother's firm. He recommended that the Trust be salvaged. The bankers were willing to take his expensive advice if he would...
...there lifted head and pricked his ears. This was Argos whom Odysseus had bred but never worked, because he left for Ilium too soon. On a time the young fellows used to take him out to course the wild goats, the deer, the hares: but now ?he lay derelict and masterless on the dung-heap before the gates, on the deep bed of mule-droppings and cow-dung which collected there till the serfs of Odysseus had time to carry it off for manuring his broad acres. So lay Argos the hound, all shivering with dog-ticks...