Word: diversity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working by touch in the dark waters of the slip, so filthy that light could not penetrate, divers had cleared the wreckage of the fire (Feb. 9, 1942), plugged and patched hundreds of openings. The superstructure had been trimmed clean to the promenade deck. Since the ship lay on her...
"No restriction had been put on what could be transported. Even plants were allowed. Only in this way could the stubborn reluctance of the people of Sevastopol to leave their beloved city be broken down. . . . The Navy understood this, and with solicitude sailors carried up the gangway ancient models of...
Then hell fell on the beachhead. In mid-morning a fence of enemy cruisers and destroyers shelled it from the north. Douglas dive-bombers went up and damaged a heavy cruiser. Then 16 enemy dive-bombers, which must have been carrier-based, attacked Henderson Field. Five were shot down. Nine...
With makeshift equipment, a makeshift crew of fishermen and high-school boys (plus five professional divers at $75 a day) he started out with high hopes. That was last June. It took two and a half months to patch her under water, blow her free of water and mud. No...
Swashbuckling Bill Pawley started his fabulous career at 18, when he wangled a job with a New York export firm selling diving suits to Venezuela pearl divers. Since then he has led an up-&-down life that would fill several dime thrillers, has got rich and gone broke in such...