Word: dredgers
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...Hague to have another try. Billiton set up headquarters on Terschelling, hired 50 wooden-shod dredgermen from the village of Sliedrecht, sent out the Karimata, world's largest dredger, to claw a trench on the bottom...
...scoops of the Karimata brought up 400 tons an hour- sand, and nothing else. Then the scoops reached the wreck, tore away great iron ballast blocks from the hull. Said a Netherlander named Eelke Ryn de Beer last fortnight: "I was standing at the edge of the dredger when suddenly at three metres distance I saw how the gold glittered!" It was a bar weighing 120 ounces, worth about $4,000. The scoops had reached the treasure chamber. Then the sand caved in again over the ship; for three days the scoops worked furiously, finally last week brought...
...were put on the new U. S. Flood Control Commission. For the third member, President Coolidge sought a civilian of unquestioned neutrality. He found and named him in Carleton W. Sturtevant, aged 64, a native of Ohio, trained in Missouri, now living in the Bronx, N. Y. A lifelong dredger of rivers, Engineer Sturtevant has worked on the Mississippi, St. Lawrence, Hudson...
...Mystery of the Charles River Dredger" is a fanciful tale of the courtships and marriage of a Harvard graduate and an Annex maid. The writer has put into words the doubts and questions which have been floating in many of our brains in regard to the effect of too much learning on the fair sex. The story is well told but we wish that some of the incongruities which mar its effect had been avoided. The "Religio Medici of Sir Thomas Browne" is a short sketch of the character and opinions of a strange figure of the 16th century...