Word: diversions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These are now the best U. S. women swimmers and divers. A few years ago the best were Gertrude Ederle, who swam the British channel Aug. 6, 1926 and is now instructor at a pool near Manhattan; Martha Norelius, who won the Wrigley Marathon in 1929, the Olympic Championship in...
At the Bronx Beach pool, New York, the best U. S. women swimmers and divers congregated last week for the A. A. U. championships in a meet made especially important by its bearing on next year's Olympics. The swimmers raced at night, lashing silver lines of spray across...
Then divers descended and hammered a Morse-code query against the Poseidon's hull. The return tap-taps indicated that at least eight of the 18 were alive. A day passed and the taps from the Poseidon ceased. The British Admiralty decided that the 18 men were dead.
The little Italian steamer Artiglio, 148 ft. long, of 284 tons burden, at anchor last week near Belle He, 25 miles off the southern coast of Brittany, had an importance out of all proportion to its size as the most modern, most completely equipped salvage ship in the world. Last...
Winter weather caused the Artiglio to suspend operations on the Egypt until next summer. The salvage ship went south to Belle He, was working last week in an attempt to destroy the week of the Florence H., a Wartime U. S. freighter named for the wife of U. S. Shipping...