Word: diversity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a U. S. Coast Guard destroyer steamed out beyond the Virginia Capes to police another exciting treasure hunt. Goal was the Merida, sunk in 210 ft. of water in 1911 with bullion and jewels in her vaults. In the Salvor, backed by Vincent Astor & friends, Captain Harry L...
Not one flyer could President Roosevelt last week find on the list of fleet officers from which the Navy's General Board had asked him to choose a successor to the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett as Chief of its Bureau of Aeronautics. He delighted Navy airmen by...
Suspected cause of the explosion was a sudden giving-away of the boat's 26-year-old boilers, though they had passed official inspection two months before. But also two months ago a local ironworkers' union had complained that the boat was undermanned, overcrowded, unseaworthy. Four separate investigations...
Last year's law caught sportsmen napping. Many insisted there was no shortage. Others, admitting a shortage in the West and a general scarcity of canvasbacks, redheads and other divers, insisted that in the East most wildfowl were as plentiful as ever, black ducks more so. Editor Raymond Prunty ("Ray...
As his ship neared Europe a wireless message came telling him to proceed to Bremen. There an engineer from the Artiglio II gave him minute descriptions of two safes to be opened by divers 400 ft. below the surface. A third had been opened with an acetylene torch, damaging the...