Word: divinge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One damp afternoon last week, just nine days after the U. S. submarine Squalus settled to the ocean floor off New Hampshire's Isles of Shoals, the British submarine Thetis (rhymes with lettuce)* nosed down the Mersey from Birkenhead into Liverpool Bay. Like the Squalus she was a brand...
Three hours after she had submerged, the Thetis was nowhere to be seen and her accompanying tug, which had lost contact with her, wirelessed ashore: "Something is amiss." A few uneasy relatives of the crew began to gather at the Birkenhead shipyards of Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd., builders of the...
The diving signal came. Prien began spinning his controls. Air roared from opened ballast tank vents, water rushed in to take its place. On the control board-called "the Christmas tree" because of its numerous red and green lights-lights flashed, showing Prien that the air induction valves, which carried...
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...
Star four is the previously mentioned Miss Fitzgerald, who will be backed by Jack Hill's band. The Smoker Committee has been diving in and out of every dance spot in the section trying to find a band good enough to back the notables present. Hill's outfit, from the...