Word: diversity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commander Momsen was at his experimental station in Washington when first news of the disaster was telephoned in from the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, "Squalus is down off the Isle of Shoals, depth between 200 and 400 feet; have your divers and equipment ready to leave immediately."
As the rescue chamber came within 150 ft. of the surface on its final trip up, the lower cable fouled on its winch. For three hours and 45 minutes Lieutenant Naquin and seven men had to revise their calculations on the probability of death, while around them divers worked desperately...
Dedicated during the day by NACA's scholarly Dr. Edward P. Warner were two new wind tunnels which are now in operation. In both, NACA engineers work under a pressure of several atmospheres, like sand hogs or divers have to be decompressed before going home at night. In one...
Finally a car stopped. On the other side of the bayou, another pulled up. The road was blocked. A few drenched survivors of the eeriest U.S. highway tragedy of 1939 joined Truckman Lewis on the road. Later divers and wreckers took his truck and ten pleasure cars from the receding...
Danny Endweiss, of Yale, one of the best divers in the nation, was stricken with appendicitis after a meet on Wednesday and was operated on immediately. His loss will mean much to the Elis in the Princeton and Harvard meets. The attitude around the local pool is that his loss...